saccadé
\sa.ka.de\
The verdict
“saccadé” is uncommon French (frequency #67,092 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,092
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est brusque et irrégulier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-saccade · saccadé · French
saccadé · rank #67,092 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,092
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sableuses
Nearest frequency peer: sableuses (-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 « saccadé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- répétaient
répétaient
32,912 corpus weight
- sableuses
sableuses
32,910 corpus weight
- saccadé
saccadé
32,909 corpus weight
- saccagés
saccagés
32,908 corpus weight
- safa
safa
32,907 corpus weight
- salgado
salgado
32,906 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « saccadé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saccadé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sa.ka.de\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,092 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « saccadé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
saccadé is uncommon French at frequency #67,092 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sa.ka.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est brusque et irrégulier.".
No misspelling variants are generated for saccadé in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is saccadé, spelled S-A-C-C-A-D-É.
Definition
- 1Qui est brusque et irrégulier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how saccadé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais elle tressaillit, le front caressé d’un frôlement léger et tiède : c’étaient des chauves-souris, qui sortaient des vieux murs, emplissaient la nuit de leur vol bizarre et saccadé.
Par moments, la rumeur des tramways couvrait l'air saccadé du phono.
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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