sacrement

\sa.kʁə.mɑ̃\

/\sa.kʁə.mɑ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“sacrement” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,475. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#16,475
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de sacrer, consécration, sanctification.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sacrement · sacrement · French

sacrement · rank #16,475 · 14 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,475
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sachent

Nearest frequency peer: sachent (-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 « sacrement »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « sacrement » 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).

sacrement vs sûrement
78% similar
sacrement vs sagement
78% similar
sacrement vs salement
78% similar

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

Key facts for sacrement
PropertyValue
Headwordsacrement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sa.kʁə.mɑ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#16,475
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sacrement »

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

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sachent » (#16,474), « sahel » (#16,476), « Sabrina » (#16,473). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sacrement » est au #16,475. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around sacrement (IPA \sa.kʁə.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,475 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for sacrement, with forms such as "ascrement", "saccrement", and "sacerment". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "sûrement", "sagement", "salement", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sacrement, spelled S-A-C-R-E-M-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de sacrer, consécration, sanctification.
  2. 2
    Chez les Chrétiens, cérémonie destinée à la consécration religieuse des diverses phases de la vie privée des fidèles.
  3. 3
    L’eucharistie.
  4. 4
    L’extrême-onction, et plus largement les derniers sacrements.
  5. 5
    Le mariage.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Les sacrements de l’ancienne loi. Les sacrements de la nouvelle loi.
  2. Les casuistes relâchés croyaient être les meilleurs et les plus utiles défenseurs de l’Église ; ils empêchaient, en effet les chrétiens faibles de tomber dans l’irreligion et les amenaient à pratiquer les sacrements.

This word in other languages

sacrament(English)sacramento(Español)Sakrament(Deutsch)sacramento(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ascrement
  • saccrement
  • sacerment
  • sacreemnt
  • sacremennt
  • sacrementt
  • sacremetn
  • sacremment
  • sacremnet
  • sacrmeent
  • sacrrement
  • sarcement
  • scarement
  • ssacrement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sacrement - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ascrement2saccrement1sacerment2sacreemnt2sacremennt1sacrementt1sacremetn2sacremment1
Edit distance from "sacrement"

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 "sacrement"?
"sacrement" is spelled S-A-C-R-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.kʁə.mɑ̃\.
What does "sacrement" mean?
As a noun, "sacrement" means: Action de sacrer, consécration, sanctification.
What words are commonly confused with "sacrement"?
"sacrement" is commonly confused with "sûrement", "sagement", "salement". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sacrement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sacrement" is \sa.kʁə.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sacrement" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

servirait#16,481réclamant#16,468substitut#16,488rappelait#16,459

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

sanctionné14 variantsretrouvait14 variantsradiations14 variantsterminées14 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list