sargasses
\saʁ.ɡas\
The verdict
“sargasses” is uncommon French (frequency #89,138 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,138
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sargasse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sargasses · sargasses · French
sargasses · rank #89,138 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,138
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sarcey
Nearest frequency peer: Sarcey (-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 « sargasses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- salissage
salissage
10,866 corpus weight
- Sarcey
Sarcey
10,864 corpus weight
- sargasses
sargasses
10,863 corpus weight
- sarto
sarto
10,862 corpus weight
- satyrique
satyrique
10,860 corpus weight
- saucier
saucier
10,859 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sargasses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sargasses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \saʁ.ɡas\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,138 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sargasses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sargasses is uncommon French at frequency #89,138 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \saʁ.ɡas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de sargasse.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sargasses, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is sargasses, spelled S-A-R-G-A-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sargasse.
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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