sane
\san\
The verdict
“sane” is uncommon French (frequency #65,504 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,504
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de saner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sane · sane · French
sane · rank #65,504 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,504
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH salop
Nearest frequency peer: salop (-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 « sane »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Sakamoto
Sakamoto
34,500 corpus weight
- Salers
Salers
34,499 corpus weight
- salop
salop
34,498 corpus weight
- sane
sane
34,497 corpus weight
- savonnerie
savonnerie
34,495 corpus weight
- schema
schema
34,494 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sane » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \san\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #65,504 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sane » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sane is uncommon French at frequency #65,504 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \san\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for sane in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is sane, spelled S-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de saner.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de saner.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de saner.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de saner.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de saner.
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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