la Sagouine

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for la Sagouine is 11 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la sa.gwin\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Personnage de théâtre créé par Antonine Maillet et représentant une femme de ménage de basse extraction faisant état, dans ses monologues, de ses réflexions sur sa vie personnelle et le monde qui l...".

No misspelling variants are generated for la Sagouine in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 la Sagouine, spelled L-A- -S-A-G-O-U-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.