Sulawesi
\su.la.we.zi\
The verdict
“Sulawesi” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quatrième plus grande île d’Indonésie, elle est en forme de K.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sulawesi · Sulawesi · French
Sulawesi · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sulawesi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \su.la.we.zi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Sulawesi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Sulawesi is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \su.la.we.zi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Quatrième plus grande île d’Indonésie, elle est en forme de K.".
Sulawesi doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Sulawesi, spelled S-U-L-A-W-E-S-I.
Definition
- 1Quatrième plus grande île d’Indonésie, elle est en forme de K.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Sulawesi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un co-auteur de l’article, Maxime Aubert, de l’Université Griffith en Australie, a déclaré à l’AFP que la peinture avait été découverte sur l’île de Sulawesi en 2017 par Basran Burhan, un étudiant doctorant, dans le cadre de fouilles archéologiques qu’il effectuait avec les autorités indonésiennes.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.