satiné
The verdict
“satiné” is uncommon French (frequency #71,899 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,899
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a l'apparence du satin, lustré, doux et lisse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-satine · satiné · French
satiné · rank #71,899 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,899
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sarraute
Nearest frequency peer: Sarraute (-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 « satiné »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sadio
sadio
28,105 corpus weight
- Sarraute
Sarraute
28,103 corpus weight
- satiné
satiné
28,102 corpus weight
- saunas
saunas
28,101 corpus weight
- savarin
savarin
28,100 corpus weight
- scary
scary
28,099 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « satiné » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | satiné |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,899 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « satiné » en français
Rare enough to double-check
satiné is uncommon French at frequency #71,899 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for satiné in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 satiné, spelled S-A-T-I-N-É.
Definition
- 1Qui a l'apparence du satin, lustré, doux et lisse.
- 2Qualifie une peau douce comme le satin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how satiné appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais tous ses soins furent pour le salon. Elle réussit presque à en faire un lieu habitable. Il était garni d’un meuble de velours jaunâtre, à fleurs satinées.
Les fils de mohair seuls ou mélangés […], servent à la production d'étoffes très jolies […] ; mais c'est surtout dans les tissus zibelinés et satinés, dans la peluche, le velours d'Utrecht, l'astrakan, l'alpaga, les articles moirés, que se révèlent les qualités de brillant et de soyeux de cette fibre textile.
Antonyms
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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