saumâtre
\so.mɑtʁ\
The verdict
“saumâtre” is uncommon French (frequency #64,771 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,771
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a un goût de sel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-saumatre · saumâtre · French
saumâtre · rank #64,771 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,771
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sayed
Nearest frequency peer: Sayed (+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 « saumâtre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sanscrit
sanscrit
35,234 corpus weight
- santis
santis
35,233 corpus weight
- saputo
saputo
35,232 corpus weight
- saumâtre
saumâtre
35,230 corpus weight
- Sayed
Sayed
35,229 corpus weight
- scapin
scapin
35,227 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « saumâtre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saumâtre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \so.mɑtʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « saumâtre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
saumâtre is uncommon French at frequency #64,771 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \so.mɑtʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for saumâtre, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists 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 saumâtre, spelled S-A-U-M-Â-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a un goût de sel.
- 2Désagréable ; déplaisant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how saumâtre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils étaient donc réduits à se servir de l'eau saumâtre de l'oued où piétinaient, matin et soir, les troupeaux.
Comme type biologique, les Palétuviers, peuplant les eaux saumâtres à salinité variable au cours de la journée, sont exactement comparables à l’hélophytie, ou hélostadion des eaux douces.
This word in other languages
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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