sacral
\sa.kʁal\
The verdict
“sacral” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au sacrum.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sacral · sacral · French
sacral · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sacral |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sa.kʁal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sacral » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sacral is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sa.kʁal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sacral, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 sacral, spelled S-A-C-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif au sacrum.
- 2Sacré, religieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sacral appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Tableau 9.1 récapitule les principales caractéristiques des vertèbres cervicales, thoraciques, lombales et sacrales.
Ceux-ci se perçoivent, en effet, comme membres d’une petite société politique qui se voit transformée, en vertu de la célébration liturgique, en une communauté sacrale réalisant la perfection islamique.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.