sultans
\syl.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“sultans” is uncommon French (frequency #52,374 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,374
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sultan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sultans · sultans · French
sultans · rank #52,374 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,374
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sultanat
Nearest frequency peer: sultanat (-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 « sultans »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- successive
successive
47,631 corpus weight
- succinct
succinct
47,630 corpus weight
- succion
succion
47,629 corpus weight
- sultanat
sultanat
47,628 corpus weight
- sultans
sultans
47,627 corpus weight
- surabondance
surabondance
47,625 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sultans » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sultans |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syl.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,374 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sultans » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sultans is uncommon French at frequency #52,374 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \syl.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de sultan.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sultans, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sultans, spelled S-U-L-T-A-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sultan.
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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