Sapporo
\sa.po.ʁo\
The verdict
“Sapporo” is uncommon French (frequency #67,098 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,098
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Principale ville du Nord du Japon située sur l’île de Hokkaïdo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sapporo · Sapporo · French
Sapporo · rank #67,098 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,098
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH salvo
Nearest frequency peer: salvo (-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 « Sapporo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- salgado
salgado
32,906 corpus weight
- Salmane
Salmane
32,905 corpus weight
- salvo
salvo
32,904 corpus weight
- Sapporo
Sapporo
32,903 corpus weight
- Schleswig
Schleswig
32,902 corpus weight
- scotchée
scotchée
32,900 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Sapporo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sapporo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sa.po.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,098 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Sapporo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Sapporo is uncommon French at frequency #67,098 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \sa.po.ʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Principale ville du Nord du Japon située sur l’île de Hokkaïdo.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Sapporo in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Sapporo, spelled S-A-P-P-O-R-O.
Definition
- 1Principale ville du Nord du Japon située sur l’île de Hokkaïdo.
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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