sacrifier
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,156
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
sacrifier is aFrenchverb. It means: Offrir quelque chose à Dieu ou aux divinités, avec certaines cérémonies, pour leur rendre hommage. Pronounced \sa.kʁi.fje\. It ranks #8,156 in French word frequency. Often confused with sacrifiés and sacrifié.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sacrifier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sa.kʁi.fje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #8,156 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sacrifier is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sa.kʁi.fje\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,156 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 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 sacrifier, with forms such as "ascrifier", "saccrifier", and "sacirfier". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "sacrifiés", "sacrifié", "sacrifice", 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 sacrifier, spelled S-A-C-R-I-F-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Offrir quelque chose à Dieu ou aux divinités, avec certaines cérémonies, pour leur rendre hommage.
- 2Se conformer par faiblesse, par complaisance, par habitude.
- 3Abandonner volontairement quelque chose, y renoncer, pour l’amour de Dieu ou en considération d’une personne, d’une chose.
- 4Perdre, délaisser, abandonner.
- 5Rendre quelqu’un victime de quelque dessein ou de quelque intérêt.
- 6Employer, utiliser ce qui nous est précieux.
- 7Se dévouer à quelqu’un ou quelque chose sans réserve ; souffrir tout pour son service, pour l’amour de lui.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ascrifier,saccrifier,sacirfier,sacrfiier,sacrifeir,sacriffier,sacrifierr,sacrifire,sacriifer,sacrrifier,sarcifier,scarifier,ssacrifier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sacrifier
Misspelling Variants of "sacrifier"
Frequency rank: #8,156 in French
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