sayonara
\ˌsaɪ.ə.ˈnɑː.ɹə\
The verdict
“sayonara” is uncommon French (frequency #83,363 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,363
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Au revoir, adieu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sayonara · sayonara · French
sayonara · rank #83,363 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,363
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sauveuse
Nearest frequency peer: sauveuse (-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 « sayonara »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sargent
sargent
16,641 corpus weight
- sauveuse
sauveuse
16,639 corpus weight
- sayonara
sayonara
16,638 corpus weight
- schnell
schnell
16,637 corpus weight
- Schweizer
Schweizer
16,636 corpus weight
- Scotto
Scotto
16,635 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sayonara » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sayonara |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \ˌsaɪ.ə.ˈnɑː.ɹə\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sayonara » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sayonara is uncommon French at frequency #83,363 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \ˌsaɪ.ə.ˈnɑː.ɹə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Au revoir, adieu.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sayonara in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sayonara, spelled S-A-Y-O-N-A-R-A.
Definition
- 1Au revoir, adieu.
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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