sacrosaint
\sa.kʁo.sɛ̃\
The verdict
“sacrosaint” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est très saint, doublement sacré et révéré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sacrosaint · sacrosaint · French
sacrosaint · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | sacrosaint |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sa.kʁo.sɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sacrosaint » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sacrosaint is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sa.kʁo.sɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sacrosaint, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 sacrosaint, spelled S-A-C-R-O-S-A-I-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est très saint, doublement sacré et révéré.
- 2S’emploie le plus souvent sans sens particulier, pour indiquer une nuance d’ironie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sacrosaint appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les basiliques majeures, appelées aussi patriarchales ou sacrosaintes, le maître-autel est dit autel papal, parce que le pape seul peut y célébrer.
La sacrosainte libre concurrence au sein des pays de la Communauté s’est ainsi heurtée au monopole des architectes en chef des monuments historiques (ACMH), automatiquement chargés de la maîtrise d’œuvre pour les immeubles classés dès lors que les travaux entrepris étaient subventionnés par le ministère de la culture ou réalisés sous sa maîtrise d’ouvrage.
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.