sarthois
\saʁ.twa\
The verdict
“sarthois” is uncommon French (frequency #71,050 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,050
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se rapporte à la Sarthe, ou aux Sarthois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sarthois · sarthois · French
sarthois · rank #71,050 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,050
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sarments
Nearest frequency peer: sarments (-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 « sarthois »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- salace
salace
28,955 corpus weight
- sani
sani
28,953 corpus weight
- sarments
sarments
28,952 corpus weight
- sarthois
sarthois
28,951 corpus weight
- sauteurs
sauteurs
28,949 corpus weight
- scabreux
scabreux
28,948 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sarthois » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sarthois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \saʁ.twa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,050 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sarthois » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sarthois is uncommon French at frequency #71,050 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \saʁ.twa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui se rapporte à la Sarthe, ou aux Sarthois.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sarthois, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sarthois, spelled S-A-R-T-H-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Qui se rapporte à la Sarthe, ou aux Sarthois.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sarthois appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le club sarthois, remis à disposition de la Ligue du Maine, évoluera la saison prochaine au mieux en division d’honneur (DH), soit le plus haut niveau... régional !
Depuis une dizaine de jours, les rillettes, spécialité sarthoise par excellence, attirent la convoitise de personnes mal attentionnées — visiblement en manque de cochonnailles — dans ce département du nord-ouest de la France.
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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