sashay
/ˈsæʃeɪ/
"sashay" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sashay” is uncommon English (frequency #87,790 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,790
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A chassé.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sashay · sashay · English
sashay · rank #87,790 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,790
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Saroyan
Nearest frequency peer: Saroyan (-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 “sashay”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sandbank
sandbank
12,215 corpus weight
- Saroyan
Saroyan
12,212 corpus weight
- sashay
sashay
12,211 corpus weight
- satiation
satiation
12,209 corpus weight
- Savitri
Savitri
12,208 corpus weight
- sconces
sconces
12,207 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sashay” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sashay |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsæʃeɪ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #87,790 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sashay” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sashay is uncommon English at frequency #87,790 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsæʃeɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for sashay in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Verlan (or metathesis) form of French chassé, past participle of chasser (“chase”), from Latin captō, frequentative of capiō (“I take”). The correct English form is sashay, spelled S-A-S-H-A-Y.
Definition
- 1A chassé.
- 2A sequence of sideways steps in a circle in square dancing.
Etymology
Verlan (or metathesis) form of French chassé, past participle of chasser (“chase”), from Latin captō, frequentative of capiō (“I take”).
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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