sansal
\sɑ̃.sal\
The verdict
“sansal” is uncommon French (frequency #96,349 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,349
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Courtier, agent de change, agent de banque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sansal · sansal · French
sansal · rank #96,349 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,349
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH saoulée
Nearest frequency peer: saoulée (+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 « sansal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- salanque
salanque
3,657 corpus weight
- salicylique
salicylique
3,656 corpus weight
- salissez
salissez
3,655 corpus weight
- sansal
sansal
3,652 corpus weight
- saoulée
saoulée
3,650 corpus weight
- Sarawak
Sarawak
3,648 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sansal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sansal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.sal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,349 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sansal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sansal is uncommon French at frequency #96,349 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɑ̃.sal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Courtier, agent de change, agent de banque.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sansal in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is sansal, spelled S-A-N-S-A-L.
Definition
- 1Courtier, agent de change, agent de banque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sansal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les banquiers et les négociants qui remettent les lettres de change aux sansaux pour les négocier, les signent en blanc avec le jour de la remise ; les sansaux les donnent de même à ceux qui les prennent, sans leur être d’aucune garantie, à moins de convention expresse ; en ce cas le sansal remplit l’ordre en sa faveur, et passe le sien à celui à qui il r…
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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