saborder
\sa.bɔʁ.de\
The verdict
“saborder” is uncommon French (frequency #56,253 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,253
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Percer la carène d’un navire au-dessous de la ligne de flottaison pour le couler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-saborder · saborder · French
saborder · rank #56,253 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,253
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Saito
Nearest frequency peer: Saito (+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 « saborder »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- révisionnis…
révisionnistes
43,752 corpus weight
- révoltante
révoltante
43,751 corpus weight
- saborder
saborder
43,748 corpus weight
- Saito
Saito
43,747 corpus weight
- salua
salua
43,746 corpus weight
- santal
santal
43,745 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « saborder » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saborder |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sa.bɔʁ.de\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,253 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « saborder » en français
Rare enough to double-check
saborder is uncommon French at frequency #56,253 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sa.bɔʁ.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for saborder in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is saborder, spelled S-A-B-O-R-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Percer la carène d’un navire au-dessous de la ligne de flottaison pour le couler.
- 2Détruire volontairement quelque chose, saboter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how saborder appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
John Mangles, fou de désespoir, saisit sa hache. Il allait saborder la pirogue.
On avait huilé par avance l'édifice condamné à disparaitre, comme on saborde la cale d'un navire destiné à être coulé. On rebouche le trou avec des planches qu'il suffit de déclouer pour que le navire aille au fond de l'eau […].
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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