saki
\sa.ki\
The verdict
“saki” is uncommon French (frequency #61,125 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,125
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Singe du genre Chiropotes ou Pithecia, de la famille des cébidés (Cebidae).
Corpus desk
Index FR-saki · saki · French
saki · rank #61,125 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,125
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH saltimbanques
Nearest frequency peer: saltimbanques (+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 « saki »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- résidentes
résidentes
38,879 corpus weight
- réutilisés
réutilisés
38,878 corpus weight
- saki
saki
38,876 corpus weight
- saltimbanqu…
saltimbanques
38,875 corpus weight
- sandale
sandale
38,874 corpus weight
- sauternes
sauternes
38,873 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « saki » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saki |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.ki\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #61,125 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « saki » en français
Rare enough to double-check
saki is uncommon French at frequency #61,125 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.ki\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Singe du genre Chiropotes ou Pithecia, de la famille des cébidés (Cebidae).".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for saki, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is saki, spelled S-A-K-I.
Definition
- 1Singe du genre Chiropotes ou Pithecia, de la famille des cébidés (Cebidae).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how saki appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le saki à face blanche (Pithecia pithecia) est un primate du nord de l'Amérique du Sud.
Le matin, Pierre prend une des jeeps de la base et part en forêt, là où il semble qu’un saki à visage chauve ait été aperçu un an plus tôt par un autochtone.
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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