sanhédrin
\sa.ne.dʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“sanhédrin” is uncommon French (frequency #63,340 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,340
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tribunal des juifs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sanhedrin · sanhédrin · French
sanhédrin · rank #63,340 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,340
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sanglot
Nearest frequency peer: sanglot (-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 « sanhédrin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- sbire
sbire
36,659 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sanhédrin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sanhédrin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.ne.dʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,340 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sanhédrin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sanhédrin is uncommon French at frequency #63,340 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.ne.dʁɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
sanhédrin doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sanhédrin, spelled S-A-N-H-É-D-R-I-N.
Definition
- 1Tribunal des juifs.
- 2Personne qui juge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sanhédrin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ayant entendu cela, ils entrèrent dès le matin dans le temple, et se mirent à enseigner. Le souverain sacrificateur et ceux qui étaient avec lui étant survenus, ils convoquèrent le sanhédrin et tous les anciens des fils d’Israël, et ils envoyèrent chercher les apôtres à la prison.
Le roi avait bien lancé les grands travaux d’embellissement du Temple de Jérusalem, il s’était bien gardé aussi de s’arroger une quelconque autorité spirituelle, mais il avait en sens inverse dépouillé le sanhédrin de tout pouvoir séculier.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).