saki

\sa.ki\

/\sa.ki\/ noun

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for saki
PropertyValue
Headwordsaki
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sa.ki\
Letters4
Frequency rank#61,125
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « saki » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.sakitombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « saltimbanques » (#61,126), « réutilisés » (#61,123), « sandale » (#61,127). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « saki » est au #61,125. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Singe du genre Chiropotes ou Pithecia, de la famille des cébidés (Cebidae).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le saki à face blanche (Pithecia pithecia) est un primate du nord de l'Amérique du Sud.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "saki"?
"saki" is spelled S-A-K-I. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.ki\.
What does "saki" mean?
As a noun, "saki" means: Singe du genre Chiropotes ou Pithecia, de la famille des cébidés (Cebidae).
How do you pronounce "saki"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "saki" is \sa.ki\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "saki" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list