sassanides

\sa.sa.nid\

/\sa.sa.nid\/ adj

The verdict

“sassanides” is uncommon French (frequency #91,149 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#91,149
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sassanide.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sassanides · sassanides · French

sassanides · rank #91,149 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #91,149
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sarrasine

Nearest frequency peer: sarrasine (-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 « sassanides »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sassanides » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for sassanides
PropertyValue
Headwordsassanides
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\sa.sa.nid\
Letters10
Frequency rank#91,149
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « sassanides » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.sassanidestombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « sarrasine » (#91,148), « satis » (#91,150), « Satory » (#91,152). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sassanides » est au #91,149. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sassanides is uncommon French at frequency #91,149 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sa.sa.nid\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de sassanide.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sassanides, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is sassanides, spelled S-A-S-S-A-N-I-D-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de sassanide.

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 "sassanides"?
"sassanides" is spelled S-A-S-S-A-N-I-D-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.sa.nid\.
What does "sassanides" mean?
As an adjective, "sassanides" means: Pluriel de sassanide.
How do you pronounce "sassanides"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sassanides" is \sa.sa.nid\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sassanides" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sassanides", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list