satrape
\sa.tʁap\
The verdict
“satrape” is uncommon French (frequency #73,543 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,543
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Titre des gouverneurs de province, chez les anciens Perses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-satrape · satrape · French
satrape · rank #73,543 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,543
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH satanés
Nearest frequency peer: satanés (-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 « satrape »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Samothrace
Samothrace
26,461 corpus weight
- saperlipope…
saperlipopette
26,460 corpus weight
- satanés
satanés
26,459 corpus weight
- satrape
satrape
26,458 corpus weight
- SBM
SBM
26,457 corpus weight
- Schmit
Schmit
26,455 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « satrape » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | satrape |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.tʁap\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,543 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « satrape » en français
Rare enough to double-check
satrape is uncommon French at frequency #73,543 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.tʁap\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for satrape in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is satrape, spelled S-A-T-R-A-P-E.
Definition
- 1Titre des gouverneurs de province, chez les anciens Perses.
- 2Personnage qui exerce une autorité despotique.
- 3Personne très riche qui mène grand train.
- 4Titre porté par certains membres du collège de pataphysique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how satrape appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tissapherne vint ensuite dans l’Hellespont ; Alcibiade va vers lui avec une seule trirème, apportant les présens de l’hospitalité et ceux de l’amitié ; le satrape le fait arrêter sur un prétendu ordre du roi, qui voulait qu’on traitât les Athéniens en ennemis.
Le satrape de Syrie voulut m'en déposséder ; mais j'étais déjà bien trop riche pour avoir rien à craindre : je donnai de l'argent au satrape, moyennant quoi je conservai ce château...
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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