syntagme
\sɛ̃.taɡm\
The verdict
“syntagme” is uncommon French (frequency #61,927 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,927
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dans la phalange grecque, division de 256 hommes, formant un carré plein de 16 hommes de côté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-syntagme · syntagme · French
syntagme · rank #61,927 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,927
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH symboliste
Nearest frequency peer: symboliste (-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 « syntagme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- suranné
suranné
38,078 corpus weight
- syllogisme
syllogisme
38,076 corpus weight
- symboliste
symboliste
38,075 corpus weight
- syntagme
syntagme
38,074 corpus weight
- synthétiseu…
synthétiseurs
38,072 corpus weight
- tamouls
tamouls
38,071 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « syntagme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | syntagme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ̃.taɡm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « syntagme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
syntagme is uncommon French at frequency #61,927 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛ̃.taɡm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for syntagme in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 syntagme, spelled S-Y-N-T-A-G-M-E.
Definition
- 1Dans la phalange grecque, division de 256 hommes, formant un carré plein de 16 hommes de côté.
- 2Unité syntaxique intermédiaire entre le mot et la phrase, et comprenant un seul noyau et souvent des compléments.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how syntagme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au milieu, se hérissait la phalange, formée par des syntagmes ou carrés pleins, ayant seize hommes de chaque côté.
Le syntagme figé « énergivoraces » apparaît dans une phrase de type coercitif : « Nous sommes tous des « énergivoraces ». Or ce type de contrainte est neutralisé par l'effet humoristique du néologisme.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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