sparadrap
\spa.ʁa.dʁa\
The verdict
“sparadrap” is uncommon French (frequency #57,610 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,610
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tissu recouvert d’une sorte d’emplâtre agglutinatif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sparadrap · sparadrap · French
sparadrap · rank #57,610 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,610
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soutes
Nearest frequency peer: soutes (-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 « sparadrap »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- souillure
souillure
42,394 corpus weight
- soup
soup
42,393 corpus weight
- soutes
soutes
42,392 corpus weight
- sparadrap
sparadrap
42,391 corpus weight
- spéléologie
spéléologie
42,390 corpus weight
- staliniens
staliniens
42,389 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sparadrap » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sparadrap |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spa.ʁa.dʁa\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,610 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sparadrap » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sparadrap is uncommon French at frequency #57,610 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \spa.ʁa.dʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for sparadrap in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is sparadrap, spelled S-P-A-R-A-D-R-A-P.
Definition
- 1Tissu recouvert d’une sorte d’emplâtre agglutinatif.
- 2Bandage plus ou moins poreux, élastique, adhésif, qui s'applique sur la peau par simple pression et sert à maintenir un pansement ou sert de pansement.
- 3Moyen de réparer quelque-chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sparadrap appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le taffetas d’Angleterre est un sparadrap.
Le sparadrap, collé sur sa joue, en tirait obliquement la peau tendue.
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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