sartorius
\saʁ.tɔ.ʁjys\
The verdict
“sartorius” is uncommon French (frequency #75,199 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,199
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Muscle superficiel et allongé du corps humain, situé à l'avant de la cuisse et servant à divers mouvements de la hanche, du bassin et du genou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sartorius · sartorius · French
sartorius · rank #75,199 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,199
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH satyres
Nearest frequency peer: satyres (+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 « sartorius »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sanctifier
sanctifier
24,807 corpus weight
- sanglotant
sanglotant
24,805 corpus weight
- santés
santés
24,804 corpus weight
- sartorius
sartorius
24,802 corpus weight
- satyres
satyres
24,801 corpus weight
- Schaefer
Schaefer
24,798 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sartorius » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sartorius |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \saʁ.tɔ.ʁjys\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,199 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sartorius » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sartorius is uncommon French at frequency #75,199 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \saʁ.tɔ.ʁjys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Muscle superficiel et allongé du corps humain, situé à l'avant de la cuisse et servant à divers mouvements de la hanche, du bassin et du genou.".
sartorius has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sartorius, spelled S-A-R-T-O-R-I-U-S.
Definition
- 1Muscle superficiel et allongé du corps humain, situé à l'avant de la cuisse et servant à divers mouvements de la hanche, du bassin et du genou.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sartorius appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais un sartorius (muscle qui cravate l’avant de la cuisse, du bassin au genou), un droit fémoral (un des quatre chefs du quadriceps) sont des muscles en forme de long ruban qui n’ont pas une force développée très grande — leur surface de section n’est pas très importante — mais ont en contrepartie une capacité de raccourcissement très importante.
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 "sartorius"?
What does "sartorius" mean?
How do you pronounce "sartorius"?
What language does "sartorius" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sartorius", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).