sanscrit
\sɑ̃s.kʁi\
The verdict
“sanscrit” is uncommon French (frequency #64,767 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,767
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue morte indienne d’origine indoeuropéenne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sanscrit · sanscrit · French
sanscrit · rank #64,767 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,767
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH santis
Nearest frequency peer: santis (+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 « sanscrit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sacrum
sacrum
35,237 corpus weight
- salpêtre
salpêtre
35,236 corpus weight
- sanscrit
sanscrit
35,234 corpus weight
- santis
santis
35,233 corpus weight
- saputo
saputo
35,232 corpus weight
- saumâtre
saumâtre
35,230 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sanscrit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sanscrit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃s.kʁi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,767 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sanscrit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sanscrit is uncommon French at frequency #64,767 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɑ̃s.kʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue morte indienne d’origine indoeuropéenne.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sanscrit, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sanscrit, spelled S-A-N-S-C-R-I-T.
Definition
- 1Langue morte indienne d’origine indoeuropéenne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sanscrit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En effet, chacune des expressions philosophiques ou des dénominations mythologiques qui se rapportent à Bouddha, est là en cinq langues : en sanscrit, en chinois, en mantchou, en mongol et en thibétain.
Ah ! vous lisez couramment le sanscrit, dit le vieillard. Peut-être avez-vous voyagé en Perse ou dans le Bengale ?
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).