sulfates
\syl.fat\
The verdict
“sulfates” is uncommon French (frequency #62,653 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,653
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sulfate.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sulfates · sulfates · French
sulfates · rank #62,653 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,653
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH suivrez
Nearest frequency peer: suivrez (-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 « sulfates »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- submergées
submergées
37,351 corpus weight
- succéderont
succéderont
37,350 corpus weight
- suivrez
suivrez
37,349 corpus weight
- sulfates
sulfates
37,348 corpus weight
- suo
suo
37,347 corpus weight
- superficial…
superficialité
37,346 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sulfates » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sulfates |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syl.fat\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,653 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sulfates » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sulfates is uncommon French at frequency #62,653 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \syl.fat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de sulfate.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sulfates, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is sulfates, spelled S-U-L-F-A-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sulfate.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sulfates appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il accaparait tous les flacons de parfumerie pour mettre ses échantillons de baryte, ses sulfates, sels, magnésie, coraux, etc.
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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