sanne
\san\
The verdict
“sanne” is uncommon French (frequency #90,172 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,172
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite table ronde, spécifique au Calvados, sur laquelle on mettait le beurre pour le former en mottes, le plateau de la table monté sur trois pieds, peut être tourné facilement pour un travail aisé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sanne · sanne · French
sanne · rank #90,172 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,172
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sapinière
Nearest frequency peer: sapinière (+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 « sanne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- salvadoriens
salvadoriens
9,835 corpus weight
- Samarcande
Samarcande
9,834 corpus weight
- sanne
sanne
9,829 corpus weight
- sapinière
sapinière
9,828 corpus weight
- saris
saris
9,827 corpus weight
- Savenay
Savenay
9,824 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sanne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sanne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \san\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,172 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sanne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sanne is uncommon French at frequency #90,172 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \san\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petite table ronde, spécifique au Calvados, sur laquelle on mettait le beurre pour le former en mottes, le plateau de la table monté sur trois pieds, peut être tourné facilement pour un travail aisé.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sanne, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is sanne, spelled S-A-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Petite table ronde, spécifique au Calvados, sur laquelle on mettait le beurre pour le former en mottes, le plateau de la table monté sur trois pieds, peut être tourné facilement pour un travail aisé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sanne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans le canton d'Isigny, on met le beurre sur une table spéciale appelée sanne, qui supporte une planche ronde munie de bras à l'aide desquels on peut faire tourner facilement sur elle même la motte de beurre, que l'on travaille avec une cuiller en bois plein et à manche très court.
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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