Sappho
\sa.fo\
The verdict
“Sappho” is uncommon French (frequency #92,164 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,164
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poétesse grecque de l’Antiquité qui a vécu aux VIIᵉ et VIᵉ siècle av. J.-C., à Mytilène sur l’île de Lesbos.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sappho · Sappho · French
Sappho · rank #92,164 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,164
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH santer
Nearest frequency peer: santer (-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 « Sappho »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- samovar
samovar
7,840 corpus weight
- sanga
sanga
7,839 corpus weight
- santer
santer
7,838 corpus weight
- Sappho
Sappho
7,837 corpus weight
- Sarazin
Sarazin
7,836 corpus weight
- Sardar
Sardar
7,835 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Sappho » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sappho |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sa.fo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #92,164 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Sappho » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Sappho is uncommon French at frequency #92,164 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \sa.fo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Poétesse grecque de l’Antiquité qui a vécu aux VIIᵉ et VIᵉ siècle av. J.-C., à Mytilène sur l’île de Lesbos.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Sappho in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Sappho, spelled S-A-P-P-H-O.
Definition
- 1Poétesse grecque de l’Antiquité qui a vécu aux VIIᵉ et VIᵉ siècle av. J.-C., à Mytilène sur l’île de Lesbos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sappho appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'est comme étant noble, sans aucun doute, que Sappho fut envoyée en exil, par un sort analogue à celui du poète Alcée.
C’est à Lesbos que naquit et vécut la célèbre poétesse Sappho, qui pratiqua l’amour féminin de façon si éclatante et le célébra avec tant de beaux vers que son nom est devenu synonyme de passion lesbienne.
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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