santal
\sɑ̃.tal\
The verdict
“santal” is uncommon French (frequency #56,256 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,256
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arbre de petite taille, à feuilles opposées, à fleurs hermaphrodites, qui pousse en Extrême-Orient.
Corpus desk
Index FR-santal · santal · French
santal · rank #56,256 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,256
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH salua
Nearest frequency peer: salua (-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 « santal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- saborder
saborder
43,748 corpus weight
- Saito
Saito
43,747 corpus weight
- salua
salua
43,746 corpus weight
- santal
santal
43,745 corpus weight
- saran
saran
43,744 corpus weight
- saurions
saurions
43,743 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « santal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | santal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.tal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,256 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « santal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
santal is uncommon French at frequency #56,256 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɑ̃.tal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for santal, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is santal, spelled S-A-N-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Arbre de petite taille, à feuilles opposées, à fleurs hermaphrodites, qui pousse en Extrême-Orient.
- 2Bois de cet arbre, qui est odoriférant, dont on fait de petits meubles.
- 3Parfum tiré de ce bois.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how santal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le santal, bel arbre d’Inde et des îles Chaudes, croît spontanément à Mysore, Madras, Java, Sumatra, Bornéo, en Nouvelle-Calédonie et en Australie.
C’est ainsi que la cérémonie se déroula le matin, à l’ombre des santals, sous lesquels une table avait été dressée.
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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