saignante
\sɛ.ɲɑ̃t\
The verdict
“saignante” is uncommon French (frequency #72,714 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,714
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de saignant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-saignante · saignante · French
saignante · rank #72,714 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,714
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sahélienne
Nearest frequency peer: sahélienne (-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 « saignante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- régisseurs
régisseurs
27,292 corpus weight
- saa
saa
27,290 corpus weight
- sahélienne
sahélienne
27,288 corpus weight
- saignante
saignante
27,287 corpus weight
- Salieri
Salieri
27,285 corpus weight
- Samer
Samer
27,284 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « saignante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saignante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɛ.ɲɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,714 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « saignante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
saignante is uncommon French at frequency #72,714 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sɛ.ɲɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de saignant.".
No misspelling variants are generated for saignante in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is saignante, spelled S-A-I-G-N-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de saignant.
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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