sacrés

\sa.kʁe\

/\sa.kʁe\/ adj

The verdict

“sacrés” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,070. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,070
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de sacré.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sacres · sacrés · French

sacrés · rank #10,070 · 10 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,070
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH régulières

Nearest frequency peer: régulières (-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 « sacrés »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « sacrés » 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).

sacrés vs sacs
67% similar
sacrés vs sucre
50% similar
sacrés vs sages
50% similar

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

Key facts for sacrés
PropertyValue
Headwordsacrés
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\sa.kʁe\
Letters6
Frequency rank#10,070
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sacrés »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.sacrésse 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 « régulières » (#10,069), « sculptures » (#10,071), « serie » (#10,072). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sacrés » est au #10,070. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around sacrés (IPA \sa.kʁe\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,070 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de sacré.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sacrés, with forms such as "ascrés", "saccrés", and "sacres". 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, "sacs", "sucre", "sages", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sacrés, spelled S-A-C-R-É-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de sacré.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. C’est le « jeune Blanc » alors qui voyait par la première fois un « Noir authentique », avec une « douce peau de chocolat », commence aussi à se désémiotiser en plongeant dans ce monde merveilleux des « serpents », des « petits caïmans », « pythons », « crocodiles sacrés », etc., dans leur « fidélité éternelle et infinie » (TRUDEL, 2001, p. 60).

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ascrés
  • saccrés
  • sacres
  • sacrrés
  • sacrsé
  • sacréss
  • sacérs
  • sarcés
  • scarés
  • ssacrés

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sacrés - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ascrés2saccrés1sacres1sacrrés1sacrsé2sacréss1sacérs2sarcés2
Edit distance from "sacrés"

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 "sacrés"?
"sacrés" is spelled S-A-C-R-É-S. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.kʁe\.
What does "sacrés" mean?
As an adjective, "sacrés" means: Masculin pluriel de sacré.
What words are commonly confused with "sacrés"?
"sacrés" is commonly confused with "sacs", "sucre", "sages". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sacrés"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sacrés" is \sa.kʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sacrés" come from?
"sacrés" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sacrés", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list