sovereign
The verdict
“sovereign” is uncommon French (frequency #84,330 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,330
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Souverain, monnaie d'or d'Angleterre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sovereign · sovereign · French
sovereign · rank #84,330 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,330
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soumettons
Nearest frequency peer: soumettons (-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 « sovereign »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Sorrente
Sorrente
15,674 corpus weight
- soumettons
soumettons
15,672 corpus weight
- sovereign
sovereign
15,671 corpus weight
- sparring
sparring
15,670 corpus weight
- Spokane
Spokane
15,669 corpus weight
- sprites
sprites
15,668 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sovereign » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sovereign |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,330 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sovereign » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sovereign is uncommon French at frequency #84,330 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Souverain, monnaie d'or d'Angleterre.".
Zero misspellings are on record for sovereign in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sovereign, spelled S-O-V-E-R-E-I-G-N.
Definition
- 1Souverain, monnaie d'or d'Angleterre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sovereign appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rien ne put tirer Mr. Jim Pike, dit Tête-de-Rat, de son mutisme obstiné ; mais on avait trouvé dans sa poche trente livres en belles bank-notes de la Banque d'Angleterre et huit souvereigns en or, somme considérable pour un libéré!
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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