sashimi
\sa.ʃi.mi\
The verdict
“sashimi” is uncommon French (frequency #98,466 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,466
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Spécialité culinaire japonaise composée de tranches de poisson cru.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sashimi · sashimi · French
sashimi · rank #98,466 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,466
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sapés
Nearest frequency peer: sapés (-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 « sashimi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- saponificat…
saponification
1,537 corpus weight
- sapés
sapés
1,536 corpus weight
- sashimi
sashimi
1,535 corpus weight
- satanas
satanas
1,534 corpus weight
- Satomi
Satomi
1,533 corpus weight
- scandaient
scandaient
1,532 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sashimi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sashimi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.ʃi.mi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #98,466 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sashimi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sashimi is uncommon French at frequency #98,466 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.ʃi.mi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Spécialité culinaire japonaise composée de tranches de poisson cru.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sashimi in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sashimi, spelled S-A-S-H-I-M-I.
Definition
- 1Spécialité culinaire japonaise composée de tranches de poisson cru.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sashimi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
M. Ozu, nouveau résident peu au fait des hiérarchies, invite sa concierge à un dîner exotique. Ils conversent de sashimis et de nouilles au soja.
C’était Rinri qui préparait les repas. Il cuisinait mal, mais mieux que moi, […]. Au lieu de lui signifier que c’était inavalable, je lui parlais de ma passion pour les sashimis et les sushis.
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.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).