saugrenu
\sɔ.ɡʁə.ny\
The verdict
“saugrenu” is uncommon French (frequency #79,724 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,724
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est absurde, ridicule, d’une étrangeté choquante, en parlant des choses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-saugrenu · saugrenu · French
saugrenu · rank #79,724 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,724
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sassy
Nearest frequency peer: Sassy (-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 « saugrenu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Sassy
Sassy
20,278 corpus weight
- saugrenu
saugrenu
20,277 corpus weight
- Scarlatti
Scarlatti
20,276 corpus weight
- schizophrén…
schizophrénique
20,275 corpus weight
- schola
schola
20,273 corpus weight
- scion
scion
20,272 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « saugrenu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saugrenu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɔ.ɡʁə.ny\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,724 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « saugrenu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
saugrenu is uncommon French at frequency #79,724 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sɔ.ɡʁə.ny\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est absurde, ridicule, d’une étrangeté choquante, en parlant des choses.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for saugrenu, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is saugrenu, spelled S-A-U-G-R-E-N-U.
Definition
- 1Qui est absurde, ridicule, d’une étrangeté choquante, en parlant des choses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how saugrenu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au bout d'un couloir funèbre et saugrenu dont la disposition avait je ne sais quoi de caligaresque, l'entrée de La Java ne fait guère impression.
[…] et, si l'acte qui fut bâti à Algésiras par un aréopage européen fut un des papiers les plus saugrenus dont l'ignorance diplomatique ait jamais accouché, du moins aucun des droits essentiels de notre pays n'y fut méconnu.
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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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