satsuma
/ˈsɑtsumɑ/
The verdict
“satsuma” is uncommon French (frequency #99,622 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,622
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mandarine satsuma.
Corpus desk
Index FR-satsuma · satsuma · French
satsuma · rank #99,622 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,622
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH satrapes
Nearest frequency peer: satrapes (-2 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 « satsuma »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- savetier
savetier
377 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « satsuma » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | satsuma |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsɑtsumɑ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #99,622 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « satsuma » en français
Rare enough to double-check
satsuma is uncommon French at frequency #99,622 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsɑtsumɑ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mandarine satsuma.".
Zero misspellings are on record for satsuma in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 satsuma, spelled S-A-T-S-U-M-A.
Definition
- 1Mandarine satsuma.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how satsuma appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dábálaččat buvttaduvvon dahje lunddolaččat buvttaduvvon hearta, agurka, náppoš, rušpi, tomáhta, jierehat, eanamuorji, sarrit, jokŋa, eppel, appelsiidna, banána, klementiidna ja mandariidna (maiddái satsumat ja tangeriinat)
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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