sacrifice
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,438
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
sacrifice is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action par laquelle on offre certaines choses ou certaines victimes aux dieux, ou à Dieu, avec certaines cérémonies, pour rendre hommage à sa souveraine puissance. Pronounced \sa.kʁi.fis\. It ranks #6,438 in French word frequency. Often confused with sacrifié and sacrifier.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sacrifice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.kʁi.fis\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,438 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sacrifice is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sa.kʁi.fis\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,438 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for sacrifice, with forms such as "ascrifice", "saccrifice", and "sacirfice". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "sacrifié", "sacrifier", "sacrifiés", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is sacrifice, spelled S-A-C-R-I-F-I-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action par laquelle on offre certaines choses ou certaines victimes aux dieux, ou à Dieu, avec certaines cérémonies, pour rendre hommage à sa souveraine puissance.
- 2Abandon volontaire de quelque chose ; privation que l’on s’impose, ou qu’on accepte, pour l’amour de Dieu ou d’une personne, ou en considération de quelque chose.
- 3Concession que l’on accepte de faire.
- 4Cérémonie ; sacrement.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ascrifice,saccrifice,sacirfice,sacrfiice,sacrifcie,sacriffice,sacrificce,sacrifiec,sacriifce,sacrrifice,sarcifice,scarifice,ssacrifice
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sacrifice
Misspelling Variants of "sacrifice"
Frequency rank: #6,438 in French
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