sacrosanct
/ˈsæk.ɹoʊˌsæŋkt/
"sacrosanct" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sacrosanct” is uncommon English (frequency #57,693 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,693
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Beyond alteration, criticism, or interference, especially due to religious sanction; inviolable.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sacrosanct · sacrosanct · English
sacrosanct · rank #57,693 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,693
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sacrilegious
Nearest frequency peer: sacrilegious (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “sacrosanct”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Ruthie
Ruthie
42,310 corpus weight
- sacrilegious
sacrilegious
42,309 corpus weight
- sacrosanct
sacrosanct
42,308 corpus weight
- sandbag
sandbag
42,306 corpus weight
- sated
sated
42,305 corpus weight
- scabies
scabies
42,304 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sacrosanct” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sacrosanct |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈsæk.ɹoʊˌsæŋkt/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,693 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sacrosanct” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sacrosanct is uncommon English at frequency #57,693 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈsæk.ɹoʊˌsæŋkt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sacrosanct, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Latin sacrōsānctus. The correct English form is sacrosanct, spelled S-A-C-R-O-S-A-N-C-T.
Definition
- 1Beyond alteration, criticism, or interference, especially due to religious sanction; inviolable.
- 2Sacred, very holy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sacrosanct appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It will be noted that pre-grouping routes between London and Scotland are no longer sacrosanct—for example, Glasgow St. Enoch trains no longer run necessarily to St. Pancras.
Closer investigation revealed these as millions of elaborate crypts a few meters below the surface, left by a long-extinct spacefaring species called the zeioph. Many human universities wish to perform archeological excavations. Council law holds grave sites as sacrosanct, however, and the matter has been tied up in court for a decade.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin sacrōsānctus.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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