satrapes
\sa.tʁap\
The verdict
“satrapes” is uncommon French (frequency #99,620 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,620
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de satrape.
Corpus desk
Index FR-satrapes · satrapes · French
satrapes · rank #99,620 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,620
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sartine
Nearest frequency peer: sartine (-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 « satrapes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sandjak
sandjak
385 corpus weight
- sanef
sanef
384 corpus weight
- Sania
Sania
383 corpus weight
- sartine
sartine
382 corpus weight
- satrapes
satrapes
381 corpus weight
- satsuma
satsuma
379 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « satrapes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | satrapes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.tʁap\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,620 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « satrapes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
satrapes is uncommon French at frequency #99,620 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.tʁap\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de satrape.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for satrapes, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is satrapes, spelled S-A-T-R-A-P-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de satrape.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how satrapes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était un goût nouveau qu’aurait ce breuvage dans leur verre, à ces blasés de gentilshommes, à ces satrapes usés de jouissances ; et plus d’une fois ils voulurent l’y faire couler !
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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