santé
[sɑ̃.te]
The verdict
“santé” is uncommon German (frequency #97,631 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,631
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gesundheit
Corpus desk
Index DE-sante · santé · German
santé · rank #97,631 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,631
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sandplatz
Nearest frequency peer: Sandplatz (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „santé“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Sammelplatz
Sammelplatz
2,373 corpus weight
- Sandgrube
Sandgrube
2,372 corpus weight
- Sandplatz
Sandplatz
2,371 corpus weight
- santé
santé
2,370 corpus weight
- sattes
sattes
2,368 corpus weight
- Saubermann
Saubermann
2,367 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „santé“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | santé |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [sɑ̃.te] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #97,631 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „santé“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
santé is uncommon German at frequency #97,631 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [sɑ̃.te]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gesundheit".
santé doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 German form is santé, spelled S-A-N-T-É.
Definition
- 1Gesundheit
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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