saugrenu
\sɔ.ɡʁə.ny\
The verdict
“saugrenu” is uncommon French (frequency #79,724 among 394,209 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,724
- frequency rank, French
- 394,209
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui est absurde, ridicule, d’une étrangeté choquante, en parlant des choses.
| 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) |
Where “saugrenu” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
saugrenu is uncommon French at frequency #79,724 among 394,209 “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.
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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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-A-U-G-R-E-N-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.