sanglot
\sɑ̃.ɡlo\
The verdict
“sanglot” is uncommon French (frequency #63,339 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,339
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soupir redoublé, spasme de la poitrine qui, contractée par la douleur, laisse échapper des sons entrecoupés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sanglot · sanglot · French
sanglot · rank #63,339 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,339
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sandberg
Nearest frequency peer: Sandberg (-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 « sanglot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- salique
salique
36,665 corpus weight
- salivaire
salivaire
36,664 corpus weight
- Sandberg
Sandberg
36,663 corpus weight
- sanglot
sanglot
36,662 corpus weight
- sanhédrin
sanhédrin
36,661 corpus weight
- sataniste
sataniste
36,660 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sanglot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sanglot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.ɡlo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,339 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sanglot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sanglot is uncommon French at frequency #63,339 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɑ̃.ɡlo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Soupir redoublé, spasme de la poitrine qui, contractée par la douleur, laisse échapper des sons entrecoupés.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sanglot, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sanglot, spelled S-A-N-G-L-O-T.
Definition
- 1Soupir redoublé, spasme de la poitrine qui, contractée par la douleur, laisse échapper des sons entrecoupés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sanglot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les plus désespérés sont les chants les plus beaux, Et j'en sais d'immortels qui sont de purs sanglots.
Les sanglots longs Des violons De l’automne Blessent mon cœur D’une langueur Monotone.
This word in other languages
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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