consacrer
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | consacrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.sa.kʁe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,848 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Dédier à Dieu, à une divinité, à un saint, avec certaines cérémonies.
- 2Donner, dévouer à Dieu, sans observer aucune cérémonie particulière.
- 3Dévouer, destiner ou employer quelque chose à un certain usage.
- 4Employer son temps à une action.
- 5Rendre sacré, saint, vénérable.
- 6Sanctionner ; rendre durable.
- 7Adopter, rendre constant par l’usage en parlant des mots, des locutions.
- 8Déterminer le sens d’un mot, de manière qu’il ne puisse être pris dans une autre signification.
- 9Prononcer les paroles sacramentelles en vertu desquelles le pain et le vin sont changés en corps et sang de Jésus-Christ, en parlant du prêtre.
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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"
Frequency rank: #5,848 in French
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Nearby French words
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