sapphire
\ˈsæf.aɪ.ɚ\
The verdict
“sapphire” is uncommon French (frequency #52,979 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,979
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Saphir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sapphire · sapphire · French
sapphire · rank #52,979 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,979
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sandoz
Nearest frequency peer: Sandoz (-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 « sapphire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- salués
salués
47,025 corpus weight
- Samos
Samos
47,024 corpus weight
- Sandoz
Sandoz
47,023 corpus weight
- sapphire
sapphire
47,022 corpus weight
- Sartrouville
Sartrouville
47,021 corpus weight
- satellitaire
satellitaire
47,020 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sapphire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sapphire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈsæf.aɪ.ɚ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,979 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sapphire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sapphire is uncommon French at frequency #52,979 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈsæf.aɪ.ɚ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
sapphire doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sapphire, spelled S-A-P-P-H-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Saphir.
- 2Saphir, bleu profond. #0131B4
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).