sableuse
\sa.bløz\
The verdict
“sableuse” is uncommon French (frequency #62,609 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,609
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appareil qui, grâce à un compresseur d’air, projette du sable afin de nettoyer et décaper des pièces métalliques, des façades, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sableuse · sableuse · French
sableuse · rank #62,609 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,609
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH rêvasser
Nearest frequency peer: rêvasser (-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 « sableuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- réussiras
réussiras
37,395 corpus weight
- réévalué
réévalué
37,394 corpus weight
- rêvasser
rêvasser
37,393 corpus weight
- sableuse
sableuse
37,392 corpus weight
- saccagent
saccagent
37,391 corpus weight
- Sack
Sack
37,390 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sableuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sableuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.bløz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,609 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sableuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sableuse is uncommon French at frequency #62,609 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.bløz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for sableuse 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, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sableuse, spelled S-A-B-L-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Appareil qui, grâce à un compresseur d’air, projette du sable afin de nettoyer et décaper des pièces métalliques, des façades, etc.
- 2Engin qui répand du sable sur les routes enneigées, ou verglacées.
- 3Celle qui pratique le sablage.
- 4Celle qui fait des moules en sable dans les fonderies.
- 5Celle qui sable un verre de vin ou de champagne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sableuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une petite sableuse à air comprimé est très utile dans une fonderie.
Une sableuse passe dans la rue. À quoi bon sabler ? À quoi bon faire la guerre au verglas ?
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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