sars
\saʁ\
The verdict
“sars” is uncommon French (frequency #62,620 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,620
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sars · sars · French
sars · rank #62,620 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,620
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Saracens
Nearest frequency peer: Saracens (-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 « sars »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- salm
salm
37,384 corpus weight
- sangha
sangha
37,383 corpus weight
- Saracens
Saracens
37,382 corpus weight
- sars
sars
37,381 corpus weight
- savourant
savourant
37,380 corpus weight
- savouré
savouré
37,379 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sars » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sars |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \saʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #62,620 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sars » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sars is uncommon French at frequency #62,620 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \saʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de sar.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sars, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with 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 sars, spelled S-A-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sar.
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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