Sarraute
The verdict
“Sarraute” is uncommon French (frequency #71,898 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,898
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sarraute · Sarraute · French
Sarraute · rank #71,898 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,898
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH satiné
Nearest frequency peer: satiné (+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 « Sarraute »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sacri
sacri
28,106 corpus weight
- sadio
sadio
28,105 corpus weight
- Sarraute
Sarraute
28,103 corpus weight
- satiné
satiné
28,102 corpus weight
- saunas
saunas
28,101 corpus weight
- savarin
savarin
28,100 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Sarraute » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sarraute |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,898 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Sarraute » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Sarraute is uncommon French at frequency #71,898 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Sarraute, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 Sarraute, spelled S-A-R-R-A-U-T-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Sarraute appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parmi les personnes qui ont eu la chance de côtoyer Claude Sarraute et qui pleurent aujourd’hui sa mort, il y a Christophe Beaugrand.
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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