sarrasine
\sa.ʁa.zin\
The verdict
“sarrasine” is uncommon French (frequency #91,148 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,148
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Herse se situant entre le pont-levis et la porte dans un château-fort.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sarrasine · sarrasine · French
sarrasine · rank #91,148 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,148
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sassanides
Nearest frequency peer: sassanides (+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 « sarrasine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- salubre
salubre
8,858 corpus weight
- samaras
samaras
8,857 corpus weight
- sarrasine
sarrasine
8,853 corpus weight
- sassanides
sassanides
8,852 corpus weight
- satis
satis
8,851 corpus weight
- Satory
Satory
8,849 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sarrasine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sarrasine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.ʁa.zin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #91,148 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sarrasine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sarrasine is uncommon French at frequency #91,148 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.ʁa.zin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Herse se situant entre le pont-levis et la porte dans un château-fort.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sarrasine, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sarrasine, spelled S-A-R-R-A-S-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Herse se situant entre le pont-levis et la porte dans un château-fort.
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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