sergeant
\sɛʁ.ʒɑ̃\
The verdict
“sergeant” is uncommon French (frequency #68,646 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,646
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de serger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sergeant · sergeant · French
sergeant · rank #68,646 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,646
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH seriously
Nearest frequency peer: seriously (+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 « sergeant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- saving
saving
31,359 corpus weight
- Schiff
Schiff
31,358 corpus weight
- sergeant
sergeant
31,355 corpus weight
- seriously
seriously
31,354 corpus weight
- sessiles
sessiles
31,353 corpus weight
- setting
setting
31,352 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sergeant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sergeant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.ʒɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,646 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sergeant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sergeant is uncommon French at frequency #68,646 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sɛʁ.ʒɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de serger.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sergeant in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sergeant, spelled S-E-R-G-E-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de serger.
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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