satané

\sa.ta.ne\

/\sa.ta.ne\/ adj

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for satané
PropertyValue
Headwordsatané
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\sa.ta.ne\
Letters6
Frequency rank#61,880
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « satané » en français

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Sarrebruck » (#61,879), « savate » (#61,881), « Schilling » (#61,882). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « satané » est au #61,880. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Qui est digne de Satan. Il ne s’emploie qu’en manière d’injure ou de plaisanterie familière.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how satané appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Et cette satanée calculatrice Casio !
  2. « 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "satané"?
"satané" is spelled S-A-T-A-N-É. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.ta.ne\.
What does "satané" mean?
As an adjective, "satané" means: Qui est digne de Satan. Il ne s’emploie qu’en manière d’injure ou de plaisanterie familière.
How do you pronounce "satané"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "satané" is \sa.ta.ne\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "satané" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list