sandjak
\sɑ̃.dʒak\
The verdict
“sandjak” is uncommon French (frequency #99,616 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,616
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - District ou arrondissement territorial, principale subdivision des provinces de l’Empire ottoman.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sandjak · sandjak · French
sandjak · rank #99,616 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,616
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sanef
Nearest frequency peer: sanef (+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 « sandjak »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Salbris
Salbris
389 corpus weight
- sandjak
sandjak
385 corpus weight
- sanef
sanef
384 corpus weight
- Sania
Sania
383 corpus weight
- sartine
sartine
382 corpus weight
- satrapes
satrapes
381 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sandjak » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sandjak |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.dʒak\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #99,616 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sandjak » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sandjak is uncommon French at frequency #99,616 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɑ̃.dʒak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "District ou arrondissement territorial, principale subdivision des provinces de l’Empire ottoman.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sandjak in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sandjak, spelled S-A-N-D-J-A-K.
Definition
- 1District ou arrondissement territorial, principale subdivision des provinces de l’Empire ottoman.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sandjak appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le chef-lieu, le gouverneur d’un sandjak.
Le pachalyk de Kars […] D’après la division géographique actuelle, il fait partie de l’Arménie turque, et se compose de cinq sandjaks ou arrondissemens ^([sic]), ceux de Takht, de Hetchévan, de Kaghizman, de Schouraghel et de Zarischad. Son étendue est de 9,495 verstes carrées (environ 600 lieues carrées).
Synonyms
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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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