sabine
\sa.bin\
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
- résonance
résonance
84,973 corpus weight
- rééducation
rééducation
84,972 corpus weight
- sabine
sabine
84,971 corpus weight
- salué
salué
84,970 corpus weight
- sanctionner
sanctionner
84,969 corpus weight
- sanguine
sanguine
84,968 corpus weight
What this shows « sabine » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | sabine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.bin\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,030 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sabine »
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
- 1Nom 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 exampleThese source excerpts show how sabine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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
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.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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).