saltimbanques
\sal.tɛ̃.bɑ̃k\
The verdict
“saltimbanques” is uncommon French (frequency #61,126 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,126
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de saltimbanque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-saltimbanques · saltimbanques · French
saltimbanques · rank #61,126 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,126
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH saki
Nearest frequency peer: saki (-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 « saltimbanques »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- saynètes
saynètes
38,872 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « saltimbanques » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saltimbanques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sal.tɛ̃.bɑ̃k\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #61,126 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « saltimbanques » en français
Rare enough to double-check
saltimbanques is uncommon French at frequency #61,126 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sal.tɛ̃.bɑ̃k\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de saltimbanque.".
No misspelling variants are generated for saltimbanques in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is saltimbanques, spelled S-A-L-T-I-M-B-A-N-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de saltimbanque.
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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