sacrilege
/ˈsækɹɪlɪd͡ʒ/
"sacrilege" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sacrilege” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #45,064. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,064
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Desecration, profanation, misuse or violation of something regarded as sacred.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sacrilege · sacrilege · English
sacrilege · rank #45,064 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,064
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Sadr
Nearest frequency peer: Sadr (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “sacrilege”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- rucksack
rucksack
54,941 corpus weight
- sacrilege
sacrilege
54,937 corpus weight
- Sadr
Sadr
54,936 corpus weight
- safekeeping
safekeeping
54,935 corpus weight
- Sahel
Sahel
54,934 corpus weight
- Sallie
Sallie
54,933 corpus weight
What this shows “sacrilege” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sacrilege |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsækɹɪlɪd͡ʒ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #45,064 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “sacrilege”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around sacrilege (IPA /ˈsækɹɪlɪd͡ʒ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,064 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Desecration, profanation, misuse or violation of something regarded as sacred.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for sacrilege, with forms such as "ascrilege", "saccrilege", and "sacirlege". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Circa 1300, original sense “stealing something sacred”. From Middle English sacrilege, from Old French sacrilege, from Latin sacrilegium, from sacrilegus (“sacrilegious”). Sense of “profanation” from late 14th century. The correct English form is sacrilege, spelled S-A-C-R-I-L-E-G-E.
Definition
- 1Desecration, profanation, misuse or violation of something regarded as sacred.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sacrilege appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I recall the height of comfort attained by the green-cushioned "first" with starched white antimacassars and a pretentious grey floor mat on which it seemed a sacrilege to stand, as it was embellished with the North Western conception of Britannia, complete with trident.
Etymology
Circa 1300, original sense “stealing something sacred”. From Middle English sacrilege, from Old French sacrilege, from Latin sacrilegium, from sacrilegus (“sacrilegious”). Sense of “profanation” from late 14th century.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ascrilege
- saccrilege
- sacirlege
- sacrielge
- sacrileeg
- sacrilegge
- sacrilgee
- sacrillege
- sacrliege
- sacrrilege
- sarcilege
- scarilege
- ssacrilege
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sacrilege - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).