sylphide
French, noun/sil.fid/
sylphide is spelled S-Y-L-P-H-I-D-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written French, the 93,632nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sylphide is a French feminine noun meaning “female sylph” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sylphe femelle, génie ailé qui vit dans les airs”.
What does sylphide mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefemale sylph
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sylphe femelle, génie ailé qui vit dans les airs. 2. Femme svelte d’une grande beauté. 3. Femme idéale ou idéalisée, plus imaginaire que réelle, objet de rêveries amoureuses.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of sylphide
- sylphides plural
- sylphe masculine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sylphide?
- /sil.fid/
- \sil.fid\
- [sil.fid]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sylphide
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sylphide in French?
sylphide appears about once in every 8 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).