Sfar
The verdict
“Sfar” is uncommon French (frequency #55,595 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,595
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sfar · Sfar · French
Sfar · rank #55,595 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,595
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH servirai
Nearest frequency peer: servirai (-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 « Sfar »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sentimental…
sentimentalisme
44,409 corpus weight
- septiques
septiques
44,408 corpus weight
- servirai
servirai
44,407 corpus weight
- Sfar
Sfar
44,406 corpus weight
- showroom
showroom
44,405 corpus weight
- sibérien
sibérien
44,404 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Sfar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sfar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #55,595 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Sfar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Sfar is uncommon French at frequency #55,595 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Sfar doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Sfar, spelled S-F-A-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Sfar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’animateur accueille Alban Cerisier, Michel Bussi, Joann Sfar, Laurence Vanin, Thomas Rivière, Marie Desplechin et Eliott Bonduelle, finaliste de « Si on lisait à voix haute ».
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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