saucer
\so.se\
The verdict
“saucer” is uncommon French (frequency #96,357 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,357
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tremper du pain, de la viande, etc., dans la sauce pour ne pas la perdre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-saucer · saucer · French
saucer · rank #96,357 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,357
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH saurin
Nearest frequency peer: saurin (+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 « saucer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Sarawak
Sarawak
3,648 corpus weight
- sarment
sarment
3,646 corpus weight
- saucer
saucer
3,644 corpus weight
- saurin
saurin
3,643 corpus weight
- Sauvageau
Sauvageau
3,642 corpus weight
- scared
scared
3,639 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « saucer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saucer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \so.se\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,357 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « saucer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
saucer is uncommon French at frequency #96,357 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \so.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for saucer, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with 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 saucer, spelled S-A-U-C-E-R.
Definition
- 1Tremper du pain, de la viande, etc., dans la sauce pour ne pas la perdre.
- 2Mettre de la sauce, au cours du dressage d’une assiette.
- 3Tremper, mouiller.
- 4Aromatiser artificiellement.
- 5Féliciter, complimenter (dans le langage des jeunes).
- 6Se baigner, tout particulièrement la partie de l’introduction du corps dans l’eau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how saucer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« J’affirme — disait gravement Vivier, en caressant sa fine barbe blonde — et au besoin je proclame que celui qui sait saucer selon les règles n’attrape jamais d’indigestion. Fi des grillades, bonnes pour des sauvages ! »
Gassin sauça le bord de son assiette avec une discrétion presque timide.
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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