saz
\saz\
The verdict
“saz” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 3
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de luth à manche long ou court d’origine persane, rencontré en Turquie, en Grèce, en Arménie et en Azerbaïdjan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-saz · saz · French
saz · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saz |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \saz\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « saz » en français
Rare enough to double-check
saz is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \saz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sorte de luth à manche long ou court d’origine persane, rencontré en Turquie, en Grèce, en Arménie et en Azerbaïdjan.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for saz in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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 to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is saz, spelled S-A-Z.
Definition
- 1Sorte de luth à manche long ou court d’origine persane, rencontré en Turquie, en Grèce, en Arménie et en Azerbaïdjan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how saz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le saz, ou baglama, est un autre luth à long manche en bois de mûrier, né chez les Sémites occidentaux de l’actuelle Syrie.
Le saz est alors en Turquie l’instrument d’une communauté nationale et gage de modernité, d’urbanité.
Synonyms
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.