Sartène
\saʁ.tɛn\
The verdict
“Sartène” is uncommon French (frequency #70,199 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,199
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Corse-du-Sud.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sartene · Sartène · French
Sartène · rank #70,199 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,199
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH saying
Nearest frequency peer: saying (+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 « Sartène »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- saignées
saignées
29,806 corpus weight
- sandre
sandre
29,804 corpus weight
- Sartène
Sartène
29,802 corpus weight
- saying
saying
29,801 corpus weight
- scandant
scandant
29,799 corpus weight
- scintilleme…
scintillement
29,798 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Sartène » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sartène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \saʁ.tɛn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,199 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Sartène » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Sartène is uncommon French at frequency #70,199 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \saʁ.tɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de la Corse-du-Sud.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Sartène in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Sartène, spelled S-A-R-T-È-N-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Corse-du-Sud.
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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