sangha
\sɑ̃.ɡa\
The verdict
“sangha” is uncommon French (frequency #62,618 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,618
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Communauté de moines et de laïcs suivant l’enseignement d’un maître bouddhiste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sangha · sangha · French
sangha · rank #62,618 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,618
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH salm
Nearest frequency peer: salm (-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 « sangha »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- salies
salies
37,386 corpus weight
- salinas
salinas
37,385 corpus weight
- salm
salm
37,384 corpus weight
- sangha
sangha
37,383 corpus weight
- Saracens
Saracens
37,382 corpus weight
- sars
sars
37,381 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sangha » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sangha |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.ɡa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,618 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sangha » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sangha is uncommon French at frequency #62,618 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɑ̃.ɡa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Communauté de moines et de laïcs suivant l’enseignement d’un maître bouddhiste.".
Zero misspellings are on record for sangha in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sangha, spelled S-A-N-G-H-A.
Definition
- 1Communauté de moines et de laïcs suivant l’enseignement d’un maître bouddhiste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sangha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le clergé bouddhiste de la sangha redoute également l’ascendant que prennent sur la cour les jésuites, qui y font étalage de leur savoir astronomique.
Des milliers de pratiquants sont ainsi passés dans la sangha de maître Deshimaru. Certains partaient, certains restaient.
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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