sa
\sa\
The verdict
“sa” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #57) as a determiner. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #57
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Déterminant utilisé pour rendre l’idée de possession d’un objet ayant un rapport avec la personne dont on parle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sa · sa · French
sa · rank #57 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #57
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH faire
Nearest frequency peer: faire (-1 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “sa”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- ils
ils
99,947 corpus weight
- cette
cette
99,946 corpus weight
- faire
faire
99,945 corpus weight
- sa
sa
99,944 corpus weight
- aux
aux
99,943 corpus weight
- me
me
99,941 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “sa” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Determiner |
| IPA | \sa\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #57 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sa” sits in French frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sa is neighbouring look-alikes ("se", "si", …), not just typos; it is adeterminer pronounced \sa\. Frequency #57 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Déterminant utilisé pour rendre l’idée de possession d’un objet ayant un rapport avec la personne dont on parle.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sa in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "se", "si", "st", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sa, spelled S-A.
Definition
- 1Déterminant utilisé pour rendre l’idée de possession d’un objet ayant un rapport avec la personne dont on parle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tu as vu sa jupe ?
A-t-il pensé à prendre sa clé ?
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.