santons
\sɑ̃.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“santons” is uncommon French (frequency #64,080 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,080
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de santon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-santons · santons · French
santons · rank #64,080 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,080
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sanctionnent
Nearest frequency peer: sanctionnent (-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 « santons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- saisissantes
saisissantes
35,925 corpus weight
- saisonnalité
saisonnalité
35,924 corpus weight
- sanctionnent
sanctionnent
35,922 corpus weight
- santons
santons
35,921 corpus weight
- sarbacane
sarbacane
35,920 corpus weight
- Savin
Savin
35,917 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « santons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | santons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,080 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « santons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
santons is uncommon French at frequency #64,080 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɑ̃.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de santon.".
No misspelling variants are generated for santons in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is santons, spelled S-A-N-T-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de santon.
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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