sandbox
\ˈsænd.bɒks\
The verdict
“sandbox” is uncommon French (frequency #84,289 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,289
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bac à sable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sandbox · sandbox · French
sandbox · rank #84,289 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,289
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Samarkand
Nearest frequency peer: Samarkand (-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 « sandbox »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- salvation
salvation
15,715 corpus weight
- Samain
Samain
15,714 corpus weight
- Samarkand
Samarkand
15,713 corpus weight
- sandbox
sandbox
15,712 corpus weight
- sankt
sankt
15,711 corpus weight
- sarcelle
sarcelle
15,709 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sandbox » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sandbox |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈsænd.bɒks\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,289 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sandbox » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sandbox is uncommon French at frequency #84,289 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈsænd.bɒks\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for sandbox in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sandbox, spelled S-A-N-D-B-O-X.
Definition
- 1Bac à sable.
- 2Mécanisme qui permet l’exécution de logiciels avec moins de risques pour le système d’exploitation.
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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