sacristain
\sa.kʁis.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“sacristain” is uncommon French (frequency #62,612 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,612
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne chargée de la bonne marche matérielle d’une église et de sa sacristie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sacristain · sacristain · French
sacristain · rank #62,612 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,612
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sack
Nearest frequency peer: Sack (-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 « sacristain »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sableuse
sableuse
37,392 corpus weight
- saccagent
saccagent
37,391 corpus weight
- Sack
Sack
37,390 corpus weight
- sacristain
sacristain
37,389 corpus weight
- sahraoui
sahraoui
37,388 corpus weight
- salants
salants
37,387 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sacristain » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sacristain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.kʁis.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #62,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sacristain » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sacristain is uncommon French at frequency #62,612 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.kʁis.tɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for sacristain in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sacristain, spelled S-A-C-R-I-S-T-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Personne chargée de la bonne marche matérielle d’une église et de sa sacristie.
- 2Petit gâteau fait d’un bâtonnet de pâte feuilletée torsadé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sacristain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je suis boiteux, comme vous voyez, et je l’ai été de jeunesse. C’est pour ça qu’on m’a fait sacristain ; je balaie l’église et je sers la messe ; je suis fossoyeur aussi, et j’ai appris à faire la cuisine. C’est moi qui fais les repas de noces et les enterrements, sans compter que j’aide aux baptêmes.
Le sacristain m'avait vu endormi ; mais, connaissant mes habitudes, et sachant que j'avais sur moi une clef de la petite porte de l'église, il n'avait pas même songé à m'éveiller.
Synonyms
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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