safety

\ˈseɪf.tɪ\

/\ˈseɪf.tɪ\/ noun

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The verdict

“safety” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,795. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#30,795
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-safety · safety · French

safety · rank #30,795 · 9 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #30,795
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sali

Nearest frequency peer: sali (+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 « safety »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « safety » 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).

safety vs saleté
67% similar
safety vs safe
67% similar

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

Key facts for safety
PropertyValue
Headwordsafety
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ˈseɪf.tɪ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#30,795
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « safety »

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sali » (#30,796), « saccage » (#30,793), « Salzbourg » (#30,797). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « safety » est au #30,795. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around safety (IPA \ˈseɪf.tɪ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,795 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sécurité, sûreté.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for safety, with forms such as "asfety", "saefty", and "safetty". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "saleté", "safe", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is safety, spelled S-A-F-E-T-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sécurité, sûreté.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. “Too often, people only think about safety after an incident occurs. We want to shift that mindset, so safety is considered upfront- because you and your loved ones matter.”
  2. The little girl performed her long journey in safety; (Mansfield Park - Jane Austen)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asfety
  • saefty
  • safetty
  • safetyy
  • safeyt
  • saffety
  • saftey
  • sfaety
  • ssafety

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of safety - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

asfety2saefty2safetty1safetyy1safeyt2saffety1saftey2sfaety2
Edit distance from "safety"

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 "safety"?
"safety" is spelled S-A-F-E-T-Y. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈseɪf.tɪ\.
What does "safety" mean?
As a noun, "safety" means: Sécurité, sûreté.
What words are commonly confused with "safety"?
"safety" is commonly confused with "saleté", "safe". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "safety"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "safety" is \ˈseɪf.tɪ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "safety" come from?
"safety" 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 "safety", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Schulz#30,803roulés#30,786Silvia#30,810sobres#30,813

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

prêtés9 variantsTolède9 variantstourelle9 variantspostez9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list