satané
\sa.ta.ne\
The verdict
“satané” is uncommon French (frequency #61,880 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,880
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est digne de Satan. Il ne s’emploie qu’en manière d’injure ou de plaisanterie familière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-satane · satané · French
satané · rank #61,880 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,880
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sarrebruck
Nearest frequency peer: Sarrebruck (-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 « satané »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sanji
sanji
38,124 corpus weight
- Sarrebruck
Sarrebruck
38,122 corpus weight
- satané
satané
38,121 corpus weight
- savate
savate
38,120 corpus weight
- Schilling
Schilling
38,119 corpus weight
- Schuster
Schuster
38,118 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « satané » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | satané |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sa.ta.ne\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,880 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « satané » en français
Rare enough to double-check
satané is uncommon French at frequency #61,880 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sa.ta.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est digne de Satan. Il ne s’emploie qu’en manière d’injure ou de plaisanterie familière.".
No misspelling variants are generated for satané in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 satané, spelled S-A-T-A-N-É.
Definition
- 1Qui est digne de Satan. Il ne s’emploie qu’en manière d’injure ou de plaisanterie familière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how satané appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et cette satanée calculatrice Casio !
« J’y étais ! J’y étais presque ! Sans ce satané Spider-Man, je serais un dieu maintenant ! — Tu vas la fermer, oui ? »
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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