sardonique
\saʁ.dɔ.nik\
The verdict
“sardonique” is uncommon French (frequency #97,403 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,403
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui révèle une pensée, une intention méchante.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sardonique · sardonique · French
sardonique · rank #97,403 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,403
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sarrazins
Nearest frequency peer: sarrazins (+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 « sardonique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Sagot
Sagot
2,601 corpus weight
- saisirent
saisirent
2,600 corpus weight
- sardonique
sardonique
2,598 corpus weight
- sarrazins
sarrazins
2,597 corpus weight
- sassi
sassi
2,596 corpus weight
- satinée
satinée
2,595 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sardonique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sardonique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \saʁ.dɔ.nik\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,403 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sardonique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sardonique is uncommon French at frequency #97,403 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \saʁ.dɔ.nik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui révèle une pensée, une intention méchante.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sardonique in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sardonique, spelled S-A-R-D-O-N-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui révèle une pensée, une intention méchante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sardonique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En vous arrêtant au trait distinctif du visage, un nez plein de gibbosités, rouge et digne de figurer dans un plat de truffes, vous eussiez supposé un caractère facile, niais et débonnaire à cet honnête vieillard essentiellement gobemouche, et vous en eussiez été la dupe, comme tout le café David, où jamais personne n’avait examiné le front observateur, l…
Un sourire sardonique crispa les lèvres du guide.
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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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