sultane
\syl.tan\
The verdict
“sultane” is uncommon French (frequency #75,268 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,268
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Titre de l’épouse d’un sultan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sultane · sultane · French
sultane · rank #75,268 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,268
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sujétion
Nearest frequency peer: sujétion (-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 « sultane »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- suge
suge
24,736 corpus weight
- suggérez
suggérez
24,735 corpus weight
- sujétion
sujétion
24,734 corpus weight
- sultane
sultane
24,733 corpus weight
- supercalcul…
supercalculateur
24,732 corpus weight
- supportrice
supportrice
24,731 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sultane » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sultane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syl.tan\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,268 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sultane » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sultane is uncommon French at frequency #75,268 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \syl.tan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Titre de l’épouse d’un sultan.".
sultane has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 sultane, spelled S-U-L-T-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Titre de l’épouse d’un sultan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sultane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], Brian de Bois-Guilbert tint ses yeux fixés sur la beauté saxonne, qui frappait surtout son imagination par la différence qu’elle offrait avec celle des sultanes orientales.
C’est un petit pavillon situé sur le haut d’une tour d’où l’on jouit du plus admirable panorama, et qui servait d’oratoire aux sultanes.
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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