safa
\sˈa.fɐ\
The verdict
“safa” is uncommon French (frequency #67,094 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,094
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de safar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-safa · safa · French
safa · rank #67,094 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,094
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH saccagés
Nearest frequency peer: saccagés (-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 « safa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sableuses
sableuses
32,910 corpus weight
- saccadé
saccadé
32,909 corpus weight
- saccagés
saccagés
32,908 corpus weight
- safa
safa
32,907 corpus weight
- salgado
salgado
32,906 corpus weight
- Salmane
Salmane
32,905 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « safa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | safa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sˈa.fɐ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,094 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « safa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
safa is uncommon French at frequency #67,094 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sˈa.fɐ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
safa doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is safa, spelled S-A-F-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de safar.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de safar.
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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