sarment
\saʁ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“sarment” is uncommon French (frequency #96,355 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,355
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nouveau bois que la vigne développe chaque année.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sarment · sarment · French
sarment · rank #96,355 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,355
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sarawak
Nearest frequency peer: Sarawak (-2 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 « sarment »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- saoulée
saoulée
3,650 corpus weight
- Sarawak
Sarawak
3,648 corpus weight
- sarment
sarment
3,646 corpus weight
- saucer
saucer
3,644 corpus weight
- saurin
saurin
3,643 corpus weight
- Sauvageau
Sauvageau
3,642 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sarment » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sarment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \saʁ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sarment » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sarment is uncommon French at frequency #96,355 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \saʁ.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nouveau bois que la vigne développe chaque année.".
Zero misspellings are on record for sarment in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is sarment, spelled S-A-R-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Nouveau bois que la vigne développe chaque année.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sarment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans le mois de février de la deuxième année, on coupe rez souche les sarments les plus faibles et l'on taille à un ou deux yeux le sarment le plus fort.
[…] elle alla jeter un sarment dans le feu qui s’éteignait.
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); 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).