sah
\sah\
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
- révocable
révocable
20,293 corpus weight
- sah
sah
20,289 corpus weight
- saha
saha
20,288 corpus weight
- Saire
Saire
20,287 corpus weight
- salad
salad
20,286 corpus weight
- Sallanches
Sallanches
20,285 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sah » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sah |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sah\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #79,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sah » en français
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
- 1Sérieux, sérieuse, sincère
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« 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.
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