sarments
\saʁ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“sarments” is uncommon French (frequency #71,049 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,049
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sarment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sarments · sarments · French
sarments · rank #71,049 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,049
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sani
Nearest frequency peer: sani (-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 « sarments »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sako
sako
28,956 corpus weight
- salace
salace
28,955 corpus weight
- sani
sani
28,953 corpus weight
- sarments
sarments
28,952 corpus weight
- sarthois
sarthois
28,951 corpus weight
- sauteurs
sauteurs
28,949 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sarments » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sarments |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \saʁ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,049 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sarments » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sarments is uncommon French at frequency #71,049 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \saʁ.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de sarment.".
Zero misspellings are on record for sarments in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sarments, spelled S-A-R-M-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sarment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sarments appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son premier cep l’émut : quand elle fit sauter le lien de paille, elle eut l’impression de déceinturer une fille, après quoi, écartant les sarments, porteurs de grappes, fourrageant entre les grosses feuilles cuirassées de sulfate, elle eut la sensation gênante de violer de ses propres mains et de fouiller elle ne savait quels ovaires dont elle ramenait l…
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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