sage
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,960
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sage is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est prudent, circonspect, judicieux ; qui a un sentiment juste des choses. Pronounced \saʒ\. It ranks #3,960 in French word frequency. Often confused with se and SG.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \saʒ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,960 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sage is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \saʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,960 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for sage, with forms such as "asge", "saeg", and "sagge". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "se", "SG", "san", 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 sage, spelled S-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est prudent, circonspect, judicieux ; qui a un sentiment juste des choses.
- 2Qui est modéré, retenu ; qui est maître de ses passions ; qui est réglé dans ses mœurs, dans sa conduite.
- 3Qualifie une jeune fille ou une femme qui est chaste, pudique et une conduite irréprochable.
- 4Qualifie les actions, les paroles, etc., où la prudence ou la sagesse se fait remarquer.
- 5Qualifie un enfant qui n’est pas turbulent.
- 6Se dit d'un cheval de course de trot qui ne se met pas au galop, dont l'allure se maintient dans le trot régulier.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asge,saeg,sagge,sgae,ssage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sage
Misspelling Variants of "sage"
Frequency rank: #3,960 in French
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