sacrifier

/\sa.kʁi.fje\/ verb

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.

Key facts for sacrifier
PropertyValue
Headwordsacrifier
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\sa.kʁi.fje\
Letters9
Frequency rank#8,156
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of sacrifier in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Offrir quelque chose à Dieu ou aux divinités, avec certaines cérémonies, pour leur rendre hommage.
  2. 2
    Se conformer par faiblesse, par complaisance, par habitude.
  3. 3
    Abandonner volontairement quelque chose, y renoncer, pour l’amour de Dieu ou en considération d’une personne, d’une chose.
  4. 4
    Perdre, délaisser, abandonner.
  5. 5
    Rendre quelqu’un victime de quelque dessein ou de quelque intérêt.
  6. 6
    Employer, utiliser ce qui nous est précieux.
  7. 7
    Se dévouer à quelqu’un ou quelque chose sans réserve ; souffrir tout pour son service, pour l’amour de lui.

Synonyms

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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"

ascrifier9saccrifier10sacirfier9sacrfiier9sacrifeir9sacriffier10sacrifierr10sacrifire9
Misspelling Variants of "sacrifier"

Frequency rank: #8,156 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sacrifier"?
"sacrifier" is spelled S-A-C-R-I-F-I-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.kʁi.fje\.
What does "sacrifier" mean?
As a verb, "sacrifier" means: Offrir quelque chose à Dieu ou aux divinités, avec certaines cérémonies, pour leur rendre hommage.
What words are commonly confused with "sacrifier"?
"sacrifier" is commonly confused with "sacrifiés", "sacrifié", "sacrifice". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sacrifier"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sacrifier" is \sa.kʁi.fje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sacrifier" come from?
"sacrifier" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.