safe
\sɛjf\
The verdict
“safe” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,086. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,086
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sûr, qui ne pose pas de problème de sécurité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-safe · safe · French
safe · rank #22,086 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,086
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH salutations
Nearest frequency peer: salutations (+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 « safe »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- révocation
révocation
77,918 corpus weight
- rêvais
rêvais
77,917 corpus weight
- safe
safe
77,915 corpus weight
- salutations
salutations
77,914 corpus weight
- sami
sami
77,913 corpus weight
- samouraï
samouraï
77,912 corpus weight
What this shows « safe » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | safe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɛjf\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #22,086 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « safe »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around safe (IPA \sɛjf\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #22,086 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sûr, qui ne pose pas de problème de sécurité.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for safe, with forms such as "asfe", "saef", and "saffe". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "se", "SF", "san", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is safe, spelled S-A-F-E.
Definition
- 1Sûr, qui ne pose pas de problème de sécurité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how safe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chez Arkéa-Samsic, le programme de compétition d’un coureur, jeune papa, « a été ajusté pour lui permettre de retrouver ses marques sur ce qui lui paraît safe », confie Théo Ouvrard, manageur sportif de l’équipe bretonne.
Evidemment où qu’ils soient utilisés, vous devez toujours être sûr que c’est safe !
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asfe
- saef
- saffe
- sfae
- ssafe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of safe - 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.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).