consacrer

/\kɔ̃.sa.kʁe\/ verb

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,848

in French word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

consacrer is aFrenchverb. It means: Dédier à Dieu, à une divinité, à un saint, avec certaines cérémonies. Pronounced \kɔ̃.sa.kʁe\. It ranks #5,848 in French word frequency. Often confused with contacter and consacrera.

Key facts for consacrer
PropertyValue
Headwordconsacrer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kɔ̃.sa.kʁe\
Letters9
Frequency rank#5,848
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of consacrer in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for consacrer is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.sa.kʁe\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,848 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for consacrer, with forms such as "cconsacrer", "cnosacrer", and "conascrer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "contacter", "consacrera", "consacre", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is consacrer, spelled C-O-N-S-A-C-R-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dédier à Dieu, à une divinité, à un saint, avec certaines cérémonies.
  2. 2
    Donner, dévouer à Dieu, sans observer aucune cérémonie particulière.
  3. 3
    Dévouer, destiner ou employer quelque chose à un certain usage.
  4. 4
    Employer son temps à une action.
  5. 5
    Rendre sacré, saint, vénérable.
  6. 6
    Sanctionner ; rendre durable.
  7. 7
    Adopter, rendre constant par l’usage en parlant des mots, des locutions.
  8. 8
    Déterminer le sens d’un mot, de manière qu’il ne puisse être pris dans une autre signification.
  9. 9
    Prononcer les paroles sacramentelles en vertu desquelles le pain et le vin sont changés en corps et sang de Jésus-Christ, en parlant du prêtre.

Antonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cconsacrer,cnosacrer,conascrer,connsacrer,consaccrer,consacerr,consacrerr,consacrre,consacrrer,consarcer,conscarer,conssacrer,cosnacrer,ocnsacrer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for consacrer

Misspelling Variants of "consacrer"

cconsacrer10cnosacrer9conascrer9connsacrer10consaccrer10consacerr9consacrerr10consacrre9
Misspelling Variants of "consacrer"

Frequency rank: #5,848 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "consacrer"?
"consacrer" is spelled C-O-N-S-A-C-R-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.sa.kʁe\.
What does "consacrer" mean?
As a verb, "consacrer" means: Dédier à Dieu, à une divinité, à un saint, avec certaines cérémonies.
What words are commonly confused with "consacrer"?
"consacrer" is commonly confused with "contacter", "consacrera", "consacre". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "consacrer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "consacrer" is \kɔ̃.sa.kʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "consacrer" come from?
"consacrer" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.