Sarawak
\sa.ʁa.wak\
The verdict
“Sarawak” is uncommon French (frequency #96,353 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,353
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de la Malaisie au nord de l’île de Bornéo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sarawak · Sarawak · French
Sarawak · rank #96,353 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,353
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH saoulée
Nearest frequency peer: saoulée (-2 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 « Sarawak »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sansal
sansal
3,652 corpus weight
- saoulée
saoulée
3,650 corpus weight
- Sarawak
Sarawak
3,648 corpus weight
- sarment
sarment
3,646 corpus weight
- saucer
saucer
3,644 corpus weight
- saurin
saurin
3,643 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Sarawak » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sarawak |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sa.ʁa.wak\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,353 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Sarawak » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Sarawak is uncommon French at frequency #96,353 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \sa.ʁa.wak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "État de la Malaisie au nord de l’île de Bornéo.".
Sarawak doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Sarawak, spelled S-A-R-A-W-A-K.
Definition
- 1État de la Malaisie au nord de l’île de Bornéo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sarawak appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Britanniques imposent leur protectorat aux sultanats de la péninsule malaise par étapes, de 1874 à 1914, et s'assurent par ailleurs le contrôle du Sarawak, de Bornéo du Nord (actuel Sabah) et de Brunei.
Décoiffant, le tiramisu de Pierre Hermé, aux écorces de pamplemousse rose, jus de citron, wasabi frais râpé, poivre de Sarawak et thé vert !
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).