saccharose
\sa.ka.ʁoz\
The verdict
“saccharose” is uncommon French (frequency #54,886 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,886
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Diholoside formé par la condensation d’une molécule de glucose et d’une molécule de fructose, extrait de la canne à sucre ou de la betterave sucrière et utilisé comme sucre de table.
Corpus desk
Index FR-saccharose · saccharose · French
saccharose · rank #54,886 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,886
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sabah
Nearest frequency peer: sabah (-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 « saccharose »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- réveillons
réveillons
45,119 corpus weight
- rôtis
rôtis
45,118 corpus weight
- saada
saada
45,117 corpus weight
- sabah
sabah
45,116 corpus weight
- saccharose
saccharose
45,115 corpus weight
- salami
salami
45,113 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « saccharose » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saccharose |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.ka.ʁoz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #54,886 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « saccharose » en français
Rare enough to double-check
saccharose is uncommon French at frequency #54,886 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.ka.ʁoz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Diholoside formé par la condensation d’une molécule de glucose et d’une molécule de fructose, extrait de la canne à sucre ou de la betterave sucrière et utilisé comme sucre de table.".
Zero misspellings are on record for saccharose in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is saccharose, spelled S-A-C-C-H-A-R-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1Diholoside formé par la condensation d’une molécule de glucose et d’une molécule de fructose, extrait de la canne à sucre ou de la betterave sucrière et utilisé comme sucre de table.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how saccharose appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si l’on porte la saccharose à une température élevée, il se forme des produits qui ont été désignés sous les noms d’acide caramélique, de caramélan, etc. Ces produits sont noirs, impossibles à purifier, et paraissent être le résultat d’une condensation moléculaire.
Le sirop de sucre ou sirop simple est un liquide sirupeux constitué par une solution de sucre dans l'eau. Le sirop de sucre ou sirop simple contiendra au moins 60 p. c. de saccharose.
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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