sandale
\sɑ̃.dal\
The verdict
“sandale” is uncommon French (frequency #61,127 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,127
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chaussure qui découvre en partie le dessus du pied.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sandale · sandale · French
sandale · rank #61,127 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,127
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 « sandale »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- scandaleuse…
scandaleusement
38,871 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sandale » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sandale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.dal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,127 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sandale » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sandale is uncommon French at frequency #61,127 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɑ̃.dal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chaussure qui découvre en partie le dessus du pied.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sandale in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sandale, spelled S-A-N-D-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Chaussure qui découvre en partie le dessus du pied.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sandale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au regard de tout ce qui vient d’être dit, on peut donc parler d’un être double de la sandale : ni chaussure ni non-chaussure, elle désigne la possibilité de penser une chaussure autre.
À ses pieds, on fixa des semelles de sandales qui s’attachaient à ses jambes brunes par des lanières de cuir croisées.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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