sagace
\sa.ɡas\
The verdict
“sagace” is uncommon French (frequency #97,399 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,399
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est doué de pénétration d’esprit, de sagacité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sagace · sagace · French
sagace · rank #97,399 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,399
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Saar
Nearest frequency peer: Saar (-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 « sagace »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rétroactives
rétroactives
2,605 corpus weight
- révolues
révolues
2,604 corpus weight
- Saar
Saar
2,603 corpus weight
- sagace
sagace
2,602 corpus weight
- Sagot
Sagot
2,601 corpus weight
- saisirent
saisirent
2,600 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sagace » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sagace |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sa.ɡas\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,399 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sagace » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sagace is uncommon French at frequency #97,399 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sa.ɡas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est doué de pénétration d’esprit, de sagacité.".
sagace has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sagace, spelled S-A-G-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est doué de pénétration d’esprit, de sagacité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sagace appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces sagaces animaux devinaient le piège qui leur était tendu, et le plus souvent, creusant le sol près de la trappe, ils parvenaient à s'emparer de l'appât […].
Cette sagace entente de la vie pratique n’a aucun rapport avec les vésanies et les délires.
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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