sassenage
\sas.naʒ\
The verdict
“sassenage” is uncommon French (frequency #77,914 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,914
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fromage de lait de vache, cylindrique, à pâte ferme comportant des moisissures internes, produit dans la région de Sassenage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sassenage · sassenage · French
sassenage · rank #77,914 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,914
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scarlatine
Nearest frequency peer: scarlatine (+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 « sassenage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sampler
sampler
22,091 corpus weight
- sano
sano
22,089 corpus weight
- sassenage
sassenage
22,087 corpus weight
- scarlatine
scarlatine
22,086 corpus weight
- schèmes
schèmes
22,084 corpus weight
- scoubidou
scoubidou
22,083 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sassenage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sassenage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sas.naʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,914 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sassenage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sassenage is uncommon French at frequency #77,914 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sas.naʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fromage de lait de vache, cylindrique, à pâte ferme comportant des moisissures internes, produit dans la région de Sassenage.".
sassenage has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sassenage, spelled S-A-S-S-E-N-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Fromage de lait de vache, cylindrique, à pâte ferme comportant des moisissures internes, produit dans la région de Sassenage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sassenage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le sassenage ou bleu du Vercors, dit aussi bleu du Vercors-Sassenage est le plus célèbre des fromages du Dauphiné. (source)
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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