sativa
\sa.ti.va\
The verdict
“sativa” is uncommon French (frequency #52,333 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,333
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cannabis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sativa · sativa · French
sativa · rank #52,333 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,333
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Salerne
Nearest frequency peer: Salerne (-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 « sativa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rôdeurs
rôdeurs
47,671 corpus weight
- Salerne
Salerne
47,669 corpus weight
- sativa
sativa
47,668 corpus weight
- sautées
sautées
47,667 corpus weight
- scandalisés
scandalisés
47,666 corpus weight
- sciage
sciage
47,665 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sativa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sativa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.ti.va\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,333 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sativa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sativa is uncommon French at frequency #52,333 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.ti.va\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cannabis.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sativa in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sativa, spelled S-A-T-I-V-A.
Definition
- 1Cannabis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sativa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour mes ados attardés, sous sativa Tellement en manque d'identité, qu'ils prient Jah
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).