sundae
\sœn.dɛ\
The verdict
“sundae” is uncommon French (frequency #74,407 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,407
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coupe glacée avec du coulis de fruit ou une sauce au chocolat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sundae · sundae · French
sundae · rank #74,407 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,407
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stooges
Nearest frequency peer: stooges (-2 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 « sundae »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Sten
Sten
25,598 corpus weight
- stooges
stooges
25,596 corpus weight
- sundae
sundae
25,594 corpus weight
- superpuissa…
superpuissances
25,592 corpus weight
- supervisés
supervisés
25,591 corpus weight
- supprima
supprima
25,590 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sundae » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sundae |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sœn.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,407 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sundae » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sundae is uncommon French at frequency #74,407 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sœn.dɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Coupe glacée avec du coulis de fruit ou une sauce au chocolat.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sundae in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sundae, spelled S-U-N-D-A-E.
Definition
- 1Coupe glacée avec du coulis de fruit ou une sauce au chocolat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sundae appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En fait, Edna ne possédait aucune économie et, jusqu’au matin de ses noces, versait son salaire entier à sa mère, qui lui remettait l’argent de poche grâce auquel elle se payait le cinéma et les sundaes.
Je voudrais un sundae […] Glace vanille — attention, ni glace au yogourt, ni milkshake et rien qui soit sans sucre ou basses calories — avec du fondant au chocolat et de la crème fouettée.
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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