sanga
\sɑ̃.ɡa\
The verdict
“sanga” is uncommon French (frequency #92,162 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,162
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Un rameau de bovins africains résultant du croisement ancien de taurins et de zébus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sanga · sanga · French
sanga · rank #92,162 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,162
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH samovar
Nearest frequency peer: samovar (-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 « sanga »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- salopettes
salopettes
7,842 corpus weight
- Salses
Salses
7,841 corpus weight
- samovar
samovar
7,840 corpus weight
- sanga
sanga
7,839 corpus weight
- santer
santer
7,838 corpus weight
- Sappho
Sappho
7,837 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sanga » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sanga |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.ɡa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #92,162 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sanga » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sanga is uncommon French at frequency #92,162 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɑ̃.ɡa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Un rameau de bovins africains résultant du croisement ancien de taurins et de zébus.".
sanga doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sanga, spelled S-A-N-G-A.
Definition
- 1Un rameau de bovins africains résultant du croisement ancien de taurins et de zébus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sanga appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les bêtes sanga du village, hautes sur pattes, avec de longues cornes, transmettent des tiques à nos vaches bien nourries et choyées, qui succombent immédiatement à la maladie de la sudation, à la maladie des eaux rouges, et à la maladie de Burs, et qui sont engrossées par les taureaux indigènes.
Entre zébus et taurins, on trouve des croisements utilisés surtout pour la traction animale et produisant viande et lait (groupes Sangas et métis...) — (Cirad/Gret/MAE, Mémento de l'Agronome, 1 692 pages, page 1428, 2002, Paris, France, Cirad/Gret/Ministère des Affaires Étrangères)
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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