Sendai
\sɛn.daj\
The verdict
“Sendai” is uncommon French (frequency #77,923 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,923
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville japonaise du nord-est de l’île de Honshu, capitale de la préfecture de Miyagi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sendai · Sendai · French
Sendai · rank #77,923 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,923
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sekou
Nearest frequency peer: Sekou (-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 « Sendai »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- SDA
SDA
22,081 corpus weight
- seek
seek
22,080 corpus weight
- Sekou
Sekou
22,079 corpus weight
- Sendai
Sendai
22,078 corpus weight
- septièmes
septièmes
22,077 corpus weight
- sexué
sexué
22,076 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Sendai » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sendai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sɛn.daj\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,923 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Sendai » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Sendai is uncommon French at frequency #77,923 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \sɛn.daj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville japonaise du nord-est de l’île de Honshu, capitale de la préfecture de Miyagi.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Sendai, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 Sendai, spelled S-E-N-D-A-I.
Definition
- 1Ville japonaise du nord-est de l’île de Honshu, capitale de la préfecture de Miyagi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Sendai appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La deuxième ambassade chrétienne envoyée à Rome par le seigneur de Sendai, Date Masamune, est dirigée par Haserkura Rokuemon Tsunenaga.
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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