sango
\sɑ̃.ɡo\
The verdict
“sango” is uncommon French (frequency #82,449 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,449
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue véhiculaire de la République centrafricaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sango · sango · French
sango · rank #82,449 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,449
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Salima
Nearest frequency peer: Salima (-2 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 « sango »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- saisines
saisines
17,556 corpus weight
- Salerno
Salerno
17,555 corpus weight
- Salima
Salima
17,554 corpus weight
- sango
sango
17,552 corpus weight
- satanée
satanée
17,550 corpus weight
- saugrenues
saugrenues
17,549 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sango » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sango |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.ɡo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #82,449 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sango » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sango is uncommon French at frequency #82,449 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɑ̃.ɡo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue véhiculaire de la République centrafricaine.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sango, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is sango, spelled S-A-N-G-O.
Definition
- 1Langue véhiculaire de la République centrafricaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sango appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les prêtres français et italiens qui vivaient dans la région nous enseignaient le catéchisme en sango. Je suis venu à Bangui vers quinze ans. Au lycée, en dehors du français, nous étudiions l’anglais, le latin et le grec. Mais la ville elle-même ne parlait que le sango.
Lingala, kikongo, tshiluba, swahili, sango : outre le français, cinq langues véhiculaires jouent un rôle clé dans le bassin du Congo, correspondant aux trois pays.
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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