sarbacane
\saʁ.ba.kan\
The verdict
“sarbacane” is uncommon French (frequency #64,081 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,081
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Long tube dont on se sert pour projeter quelque chose (des fléchettes par exemple) en soufflant dedans avec force.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sarbacane · sarbacane · French
sarbacane · rank #64,081 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,081
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH santons
Nearest frequency peer: santons (-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 « sarbacane »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- saisonnalité
saisonnalité
35,924 corpus weight
- sanctionnent
sanctionnent
35,922 corpus weight
- santons
santons
35,921 corpus weight
- sarbacane
sarbacane
35,920 corpus weight
- Savin
Savin
35,917 corpus weight
- schleck
schleck
35,916 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sarbacane » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sarbacane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \saʁ.ba.kan\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sarbacane » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sarbacane is uncommon French at frequency #64,081 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \saʁ.ba.kan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for sarbacane in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sarbacane, spelled S-A-R-B-A-C-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Long tube dont on se sert pour projeter quelque chose (des fléchettes par exemple) en soufflant dedans avec force.
- 2Tube de fer à l’usage des verriers.
- 3Sport individuel ou par équipe, consistant à propulser un projectile sur une cible verticale en soufflant dans une sarbacane.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sarbacane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sarbacane de verre, de bois, de fer.
Lancer des pois, des boulettes de terre avec une sarbacane.
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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