sabine

\sa.bin\

/\sa.bin\/ noun

The verdict

“sabine” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,030. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#15,030
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom usuel de Juniperus foetidissima (anciennement Juniperus sabina, espèce de genévrier originaire d'une zone approximative allant de la Croatie à la Grèce, la Turquie et l’Iran, dont la saveur est...

Corpus desk

Index FR-sabine · sabine · French

sabine · rank #15,030 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #15,030
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH rééducation

Nearest frequency peer: rééducation (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « sabine »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « sabine » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

sabine vs sain
67% similar
sabine vs sine
67% similar
sabine vs saint
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for sabine
PropertyValue
Headwordsabine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sa.bin\
Letters6
Frequency rank#15,030
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sabine »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).sabinese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « rééducation » (#15,029), « salué » (#15,031), « résonance » (#15,028). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sabine » est au #15,030. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around sabine (IPA \sa.bin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,030 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom usuel de Juniperus foetidissima (anciennement Juniperus sabina, espèce de genévrier originaire d'une zone approximative allant de la Croatie à la Grèce, la Turquie et l’Iran, dont la saveur est...".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for sabine, with forms such as "asbine", "sabbine", and "sabien". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sain", "sine", "saint", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is sabine, spelled S-A-B-I-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom usuel de Juniperus foetidissima (anciennement Juniperus sabina, espèce de genévrier originaire d'une zone approximative allant de la Croatie à la Grèce, la Turquie et l’Iran, dont la saveur est âcre, l’odeur très forte, et qui contient une huile volatile riche en sabinol qui rend cette plante toxique.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how sabine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La flore est adaptée aux lieux : buissons de thym et de romarin, garrigues d’yeuses et de sabine, mares qui se remplissent d’eau quand arrivent les pluies, rares mais violentes et suffisantes pour transformer les pistes en magmas boueux.

Synonyms

genévrier sabinesabine de montagne

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asbine
  • sabbine
  • sabien
  • sabinne
  • sabnie
  • saibne
  • sbaine
  • ssabine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sabine - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

asbine2sabbine1sabien2sabinne1sabnie2saibne2sbaine2ssabine1
Edit distance from "sabine"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sabine"?
"sabine" is spelled S-A-B-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.bin\.
What does "sabine" mean?
As a noun, "sabine" means: Nom usuel de Juniperus foetidissima (anciennement Juniperus sabina, espèce de genévrier originaire d'une zone approximative allant de la Croatie à la Grèce, la Turquie et l’Iran, dont la saveur est...
What words are commonly confused with "sabine"?
"sabine" is commonly confused with "sain", "sine", "saint". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sabine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sabine" is \sa.bin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sabine" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sabine", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list