sare
\saʁ\
The verdict
“sare” is uncommon French (frequency #84,293 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,293
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de saros.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sare · sare · French
sare · rank #84,293 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,293
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sarcelle
Nearest frequency peer: sarcelle (-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 « sare »
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 « sare » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sare |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \saʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #84,293 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sare » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sare is uncommon French at frequency #84,293 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \saʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de saros.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sare, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 sare, spelled S-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Variante de saros.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sare appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Chaldéens avaient deux périodes appelées sares, toutes deux composées de mois lunaires : l'une de 223 mois, qui n'était employée que par les astronomes ; l'autre, qui servait à l'usage civil, était de 18 ans lunaires, intercalés.
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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