sargent
\saʁʒ\
The verdict
“sargent” is uncommon French (frequency #83,360 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,360
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de sarger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sargent · sargent · French
sargent · rank #83,360 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,360
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sanna
Nearest frequency peer: Sanna (-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 « sargent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Saks
Saks
16,644 corpus weight
- Sanna
Sanna
16,642 corpus weight
- sargent
sargent
16,641 corpus weight
- sauveuse
sauveuse
16,639 corpus weight
- sayonara
sayonara
16,638 corpus weight
- schnell
schnell
16,637 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sargent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sargent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \saʁʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,360 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sargent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sargent is uncommon French at frequency #83,360 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \saʁʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for sargent in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sargent, spelled S-A-R-G-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de sarger.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de sarger.
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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