saf
The verdict
“saf” is uncommon French (frequency #53,620 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,620
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gourmand.
Corpus desk
Index FR-saf · saf · French
saf · rank #53,620 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,620
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH réussirez
Nearest frequency peer: réussirez (-2 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 « saf »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- résultait
résultait
46,385 corpus weight
- résumées
résumées
46,384 corpus weight
- réussirez
réussirez
46,383 corpus weight
- saf
saf
46,381 corpus weight
- Sanary
Sanary
46,379 corpus weight
- sander
sander
46,378 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « saf » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saf |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #53,620 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « saf » en français
Rare enough to double-check
saf is uncommon French at frequency #53,620 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gourmand.".
saf has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is saf, spelled S-A-F.
Definition
- 1Gourmand.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how saf appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jozèf saf anpil.
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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