sargasse
\saʁ.ɡas\
The verdict
“sargasse” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Algue des mers tropicales, de la famille des fucacées dont les thalles peuvent atteindre plus de 100 mètres. Appelée aussi herbe flottante, raisin de mer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sargasse · sargasse · French
sargasse · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sargasse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \saʁ.ɡas\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
sargasse is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \saʁ.ɡas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Algue des mers tropicales, de la famille des fucacées dont les thalles peuvent atteindre plus de 100 mètres. Appelée aussi herbe flottante, raisin de mer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sargasse, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sargasse, spelled S-A-R-G-A-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Algue des mers tropicales, de la famille des fucacées dont les thalles peuvent atteindre plus de 100 mètres. Appelée aussi herbe flottante, raisin de mer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sargasse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’invasion de la sargasse a fait craindre sa disparition.
De nombreuses sargasses flottent autour de mon navire.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.