sacré

\sa.kʁe\

/\sa.kʁe\/ adj

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The verdict

“sacré” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,385. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,385
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne la religion, qui a pour objet le culte de Dieu ou des dieux.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sacre · sacré · French

sacré · rank #2,385 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,385
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH règlement

Nearest frequency peer: règlement (-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 « sacré »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « sacré » 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).

sacré vs sage
40% similar
sacré vs sacs
60% similar
sacré vs sure
40% similar

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

Key facts for sacré
PropertyValue
Headwordsacré
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\sa.kʁe\
Letters5
Frequency rank#2,385
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sacré »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).sacrése place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « règlement » (#2,384), « remarque » (#2,383), « socialiste » (#2,388). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sacré » est au #2,385. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around sacré (IPA \sa.kʁe\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #2,385 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for sacré, with forms such as "ascré", "saccré", and "sacre". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sage", "sacs", "sure", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sacré, spelled S-A-C-R-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui concerne la religion, qui a pour objet le culte de Dieu ou des dieux.
  2. 2
    Religieux, cultuel.
  3. 3
    Vénéré ; vénérable ; qu’on ne doit pas violer, enfreindre ou divulguer.
  4. 4
    Inviolable, intouchable, tabou.
  5. 5
    Sert d’épithète à des termes d’injure ou d’admiration ironique, pour leur donner plus de force.
  6. 6
    Relatif au sacrum, sacral.
  7. 7
    Fameux.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Les choses sacrées. — Les lieux sacrés.
  2. Les védas sont les livres sacrés de l’Inde. — Le Zend-Avesta est le livre sacré des sectateurs de Zoroastre.

Synonyms

sacral

Antonyms

profanefieffé

This word in other languages

sacred(English)sagrada(Español)heilig(Deutsch)sacro(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ascré
  • saccré
  • sacre
  • sacrré
  • sacér
  • sarcé
  • scaré
  • ssacré

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sacré - 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.

ascré2saccré1sacre1sacrré1sacér2sarcé2scaré2ssacré1
Edit distance from "sacré"

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 "sacré"?
"sacré" is spelled S-A-C-R-É. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.kʁe\.
What does "sacré" mean?
As an adjective, "sacré" means: Qui concerne la religion, qui a pour objet le culte de Dieu ou des dieux.
What words are commonly confused with "sacré"?
"sacré" is commonly confused with "sage", "sacs", "sure". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sacré"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sacré" is \sa.kʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sacré" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

soyez#2,389venue#2,397voies#2,398lever#2,370

Similar misspelling depth

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

orient8 variantsaffiche8 variantsgrosses8 variantsGeorge8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list