saha
\sa.a\
The verdict
“saha” is uncommon French (frequency #79,713 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,713
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Merci.
Corpus desk
Index FR-saha · saha · French
saha · rank #79,713 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,713
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sah
Nearest frequency peer: sah (-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 « saha »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- saluez
saluez
20,284 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « saha » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saha |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \sa.a\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #79,713 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « saha » en français
Rare enough to double-check
saha is uncommon French at frequency #79,713 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \sa.a\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Merci.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for saha, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 saha, spelled S-A-H-A.
Definition
- 1Merci.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how saha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Merci ! » Nous lui donnons tout de même mille trois cents francs. - Ah! Saha ! Saha ! (merci). J'prendrai un café à vot santé.
OK, merci Nick, les sacs sont prêts, on a la photo de la tablette, l'équipement. On est paré ! dit Hector. Le Manouche ... Saha, comment ça marche alors ton histoire de prière sur les ondes ? demanda Camille.
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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