sankt
\zaŋkt\
The verdict
“sankt” is uncommon French (frequency #84,290 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,290
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du prétérit de sinken.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sankt · sankt · French
sankt · rank #84,290 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,290
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sandbox
Nearest frequency peer: sandbox (-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 « sankt »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Samain
Samain
15,714 corpus weight
- Samarkand
Samarkand
15,713 corpus weight
- sandbox
sandbox
15,712 corpus weight
- sankt
sankt
15,711 corpus weight
- sarcelle
sarcelle
15,709 corpus weight
- sare
sare
15,708 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sankt » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sankt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \zaŋkt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sankt » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sankt is uncommon French at frequency #84,290 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \zaŋkt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du pluriel du prétérit de sinken.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sankt in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sankt, spelled S-A-N-K-T.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du prétérit de sinken.
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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