sah

\sah\

/\sah\/ adj

The verdict

“sah” is uncommon French (frequency #79,712 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#79,712
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sérieux, sérieuse, sincère

Corpus desk

Index FR-sah · sah · French

sah · rank #79,712 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #79,712
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH saha

Nearest frequency peer: saha (+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 « sah »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sah » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for sah
PropertyValue
Headwordsah
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\sah\
Letters3
Frequency rank#79,712
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « sah » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).sahtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « saha » (#79,713), « Saire » (#79,714), « salad » (#79,715). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sah » est au #79,712. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sah is uncommon French at frequency #79,712 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sah\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sérieux, sérieuse, sincère".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sah, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sah, spelled S-A-H.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sérieux, sérieuse, sincère

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how sah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. « T’es sah ? Le mec nous insulte et tu dis rien ? »

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sah"?
"sah" is spelled S-A-H. The IPA pronunciation is \sah\.
What does "sah" mean?
As an adjective, "sah" means: Sérieux, sérieuse, sincère
How do you pronounce "sah"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sah" is \sah\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sah" come from?
"sah" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sah", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list