Sulawesi

\su.la.we.zi\

/\su.la.we.zi\/ name

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.

Key facts for Sulawesi
PropertyValue
HeadwordSulawesi
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\su.la.we.zi\
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Sulawesi » en français

Sulawesin'entre pas dans le top 100.000 du français: zone de termes techniques, archaïques ou rares.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Quatrième plus grande île d’Indonésie, elle est en forme de K.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Sulawesi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Synonyms

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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Sulawesi"?
"Sulawesi" is spelled S-U-L-A-W-E-S-I. The IPA pronunciation is \su.la.we.zi\.
What does "Sulawesi" mean?
As a proper noun, "Sulawesi" means: Quatrième plus grande île d’Indonésie, elle est en forme de K.
How do you pronounce "Sulawesi"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Sulawesi" is \su.la.we.zi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Sulawesi" come from?
"Sulawesi" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list