saprelotte
\sa.pʁə.lɔt\
The verdict
“saprelotte” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Marque l'étonnement, juron.
Corpus desk
Index FR-saprelotte · saprelotte · French
saprelotte · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saprelotte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \sa.pʁə.lɔt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « saprelotte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
saprelotte is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \sa.pʁə.lɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Marque l'étonnement, juron.".
saprelotte has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is saprelotte, spelled S-A-P-R-E-L-O-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Marque l'étonnement, juron.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how saprelotte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Norine.– Justin… donnez-moi le journal.(M. Homais) ... Puis il l'attaque par la vanité: "N'es-tu pas un homme, saprelotte?" Gustav Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Chapitre XI — (Pocken, isbn: 2-266-08314-7)/>Justin, à part.– Saprelotte !… je l’ai prêté à la cuisinière du premier, pour lire son feuilleton !…
Blanche.– Hier encore, dans un salon, un petit monsieur chauve disait en parlant de vous : "C’est un commodore de carton !" Le Marquis.– Saprelotte !
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.