Sarrebruck

\saʁ.bʁyk\

/\saʁ.bʁyk\/ name

The verdict

“Sarrebruck” is uncommon French (frequency #61,879 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#61,879
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville d’Allemagne, située dans la Sarre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sarrebruck · Sarrebruck · French

Sarrebruck · rank #61,879 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #61,879
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH satané

Nearest frequency peer: satané (+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 « Sarrebruck »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Sarrebruck » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Sarrebruck
PropertyValue
HeadwordSarrebruck
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\saʁ.bʁyk\
Letters10
Frequency rank#61,879
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Sarrebruck » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Sarrebrucktombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « satané » (#61,880), « sanji » (#61,877), « savate » (#61,881). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « Sarrebruck » est au #61,879. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Sarrebruck is uncommon French at frequency #61,879 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \saʁ.bʁyk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Sarrebruck doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Sarrebruck, spelled S-A-R-R-E-B-R-U-C-K.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ville d’Allemagne, située dans la Sarre.
  2. 2
    Arrondissement autour de cette ville.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Sarrebruck appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Si le siège de la SaarLB se trouve au cœur de la région frontalière franco-allemande, en plein centre de Sarrebruck, la banque possède d’autres sites à Coblence, Trèves, Mannheim, Strasbourg, Paris et donc maintenant à Lyon.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Sarrebruck"?
"Sarrebruck" is spelled S-A-R-R-E-B-R-U-C-K. The IPA pronunciation is \saʁ.bʁyk\.
What does "Sarrebruck" mean?
As a proper noun, "Sarrebruck" means: Ville d’Allemagne, située dans la Sarre.
How do you pronounce "Sarrebruck"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Sarrebruck" is \saʁ.bʁyk\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Sarrebruck" come from?
"Sarrebruck" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Sarrebruck", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list