Syrie
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,300
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Syrie is aFrenchname. It means: Pays arabe entouré au nord par la Turquie, à l’ouest par la mer Méditerranée et le Liban, au sud-ouest par Israël, au sud-sud-ouest par la Jordanie et à l’est par l’Irak, et dont la capitale est Da... Pronounced \si.ʁi\. It ranks #2,300 in French word frequency. Often confused with Syrien and syriens.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Syrie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | \si.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,300 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Syrie is 5 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \si.ʁi\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,300 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Syrie, with forms such as "sryie", "ssyrie", and "syire". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Syrien", "syriens", "sri", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Syrie, spelled S-Y-R-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pays arabe entouré au nord par la Turquie, à l’ouest par la mer Méditerranée et le Liban, au sud-ouest par Israël, au sud-sud-ouest par la Jordanie et à l’est par l’Irak, et dont la capitale est Damas.
- 2Province romaine qui couvrait la territoire correspondant à peu près au pays moderne.
- 3Ensemble des pays mis sous mandat français par la Société des Nations, de 1920 et 1946, faisant partie des anciens vilayets ottomans de Beyrouth, de Damas, d’Alep, une partie de Saint-Jean-d’Acre et du moutessarifat du Liban.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sryie,ssyrie,syire,syrei,syrrie,syyrie,ysrie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Syrie
Misspelling Variants of "Syrie"
Frequency rank: #2,300 in French
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