Sylvaine
\sil.vɛn\
The verdict
“Sylvaine” is uncommon French (frequency #88,140 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,140
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sylvaine · Sylvaine · French
Sylvaine · rank #88,140 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,140
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Swissair
Nearest frequency peer: Swissair (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Sylvaine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- suèves
suèves
11,864 corpus weight
- sweets
sweets
11,863 corpus weight
- Swissair
Swissair
11,862 corpus weight
- Sylvaine
Sylvaine
11,861 corpus weight
- syncrétique
syncrétique
11,860 corpus weight
- séchait
séchait
11,858 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Sylvaine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sylvaine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sil.vɛn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,140 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Sylvaine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Sylvaine is uncommon French at frequency #88,140 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \sil.vɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Sylvaine, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Sylvaine, spelled S-Y-L-V-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sylvaine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« À Charles-de-Gaulle, un lycée avec aucune mixité, ils sont contents d’aller ailleurs », explique Sylvaine Baehrel.
Sylvaine et Simon choquèrent leurs verres si fort que celui de Simon éclata dans ses doigts.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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