sacrifice

\sa.kʁi.fis\

/\sa.kʁi.fis\/ noun

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The verdict

“sacrifice” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,438. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,438
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-sacrifice · sacrifice · French

sacrifice · rank #6,438 · 13 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,438
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH rocher

Nearest frequency peer: rocher (-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 « sacrifice »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « sacrifice » 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).

sacrifice vs sacrifié
78% similar
sacrifice vs sacrifier
78% similar
sacrifice vs sacrifiés
78% similar

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

Key facts for sacrifice
PropertyValue
Headwordsacrifice
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sa.kʁi.fis\
Letters9
Frequency rank#6,438
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sacrifice »

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « rocher » (#6,437), « sanction » (#6,439), « richesses » (#6,436). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sacrifice » est au #6,438. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around sacrifice (IPA \sa.kʁi.fis\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,438 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for sacrifice, with forms such as "ascrifice", "saccrifice", and "sacirfice". 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 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is sacrifice, spelled S-A-C-R-I-F-I-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    Abandon 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.
  3. 3
    Concession que l’on accepte de faire.
  4. 4
    Cérémonie ; sacrement.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Il offre des sacrifices, aux autres dieux selon le rite albain, à Hercule selon le rite grec, suivant en cela la règle établie par Évandre.
  2. On ouvrit la séance par un sacrifice à Cérès. Des prêtres immolèrent un jeune cochon, et de son sang purifièrent l’enceinte.

This word in other languages

sacrifice(English)sacrificio(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ascrifice
  • saccrifice
  • sacirfice
  • sacrfiice
  • sacrifcie
  • sacriffice
  • sacrificce
  • sacrifiec
  • sacriifce
  • sacrrifice
  • sarcifice
  • scarifice
  • ssacrifice

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

ascrifice2saccrifice1sacirfice2sacrfiice2sacrifcie2sacriffice1sacrificce1sacrifiec2
Edit distance from "sacrifice"

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 "sacrifice"?
"sacrifice" is spelled S-A-C-R-I-F-I-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.kʁi.fis\.
What does "sacrifice" mean?
As a noun, "sacrifice" 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.
What words are commonly confused with "sacrifice"?
"sacrifice" is commonly confused with "sacrifié", "sacrifier", "sacrifiés". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sacrifice"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sacrifice" is \sa.kʁi.fis\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sacrifice" come from?
"sacrifice" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

richesses#6,436reconnais#6,433surprises#6,444quinzaine#6,428

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

suffisante13 variantspolicière13 variantsinstants13 variantschômeurs13 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list