synapses
\si.naps\
The verdict
“synapses” is uncommon French (frequency #56,301 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,301
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de synapse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-synapses · synapses · French
synapses · rank #56,301 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,301
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH symptomatiques
Nearest frequency peer: symptomatiques (-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 « synapses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Susanne
Susanne
43,703 corpus weight
- suspendant
suspendant
43,702 corpus weight
- symptomatiq…
symptomatiques
43,701 corpus weight
- synapses
synapses
43,700 corpus weight
- syncrétisme
syncrétisme
43,699 corpus weight
- séjournant
séjournant
43,698 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « synapses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | synapses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.naps\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,301 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « synapses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
synapses is uncommon French at frequency #56,301 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.naps\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de synapse.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for synapses in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is synapses, spelled S-Y-N-A-P-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de synapse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how synapses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parce que, voyez-vous, l’amour, ce n’est pas un simple truc encodé par nos synapses et notre chimie interne.
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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