saur
\sɔʁ\
The verdict
“saur” is uncommon French (frequency #53,624 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,624
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Desséché et fumé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-saur · saur · French
saur · rank #53,624 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,624
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sander
Nearest frequency peer: sander (-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 « saur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Sanary
Sanary
46,379 corpus weight
- sander
sander
46,378 corpus weight
- saur
saur
46,377 corpus weight
- sauvait
sauvait
46,376 corpus weight
- scam
scam
46,375 corpus weight
- scander
scander
46,374 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « saur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #53,624 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « saur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
saur is uncommon French at frequency #53,624 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for saur, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 saur, spelled S-A-U-R.
Definition
- 1Desséché et fumé.
- 2Qui est de couleur jaune tirant sur le brun, de couleur obtenue par la fumée. Il se dit spécialement des chevaux.
- 3Qualifie un oiseau de proie pendant sa première année, où il porte encore son premier pennage, de couleur rousse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how saur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hareng saur.
Un cheval saur.
Synonyms
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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