sarcelle
\saʁ.sɛl\
The verdict
“sarcelle” is uncommon French (frequency #84,292 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,292
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Oiseau palmipède de la famille des anatidés, canard de surface de petite taille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sarcelle · sarcelle · French
sarcelle · rank #84,292 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,292
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sare
Nearest frequency peer: sare (+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 « sarcelle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sandbox
sandbox
15,712 corpus weight
- sankt
sankt
15,711 corpus weight
- sarcelle
sarcelle
15,709 corpus weight
- sare
sare
15,708 corpus weight
- sauvegardées
sauvegardées
15,707 corpus weight
- Savignac
Savignac
15,706 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sarcelle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sarcelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \saʁ.sɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,292 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sarcelle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sarcelle is uncommon French at frequency #84,292 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \saʁ.sɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Oiseau palmipède de la famille des anatidés, canard de surface de petite taille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sarcelle in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sarcelle, spelled S-A-R-C-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Oiseau palmipède de la famille des anatidés, canard de surface de petite taille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sarcelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'était le comte qui tuait une sarcelle.
Près des cours d’eau, des étangs, des marécages, on trouve de nombreux Échassiers et Palmipèdes : d’innombrables cigognes, des hérons, des grues, des bécasses, des bécassines, des poules d’eau, des canards, des sarcelles.
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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