sages

/\saʒ\/ adj

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,306

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

sages is anFrenchadj. It means: Pluriel de sage. Pronounced \saʒ\. It ranks #8,306 in French word frequency. Often confused with ses and sans.

Key facts for sages
PropertyValue
Headwordsages
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\saʒ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#8,306
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sages is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \saʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,306 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de sage.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for sages, with forms such as "asges", "saegs", and "sagess". 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, "ses", "sans", "sais", 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 sages, spelled S-A-G-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de sage.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: asges,saegs,sagess,sagges,sagse,sgaes,ssages

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sages

Misspelling Variants of "sages"

asges5saegs5sagess6sagges6sagse5sgaes5ssages6
Misspelling Variants of "sages"

Frequency rank: #8,306 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sages"?
"sages" is spelled S-A-G-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \saʒ\.
What does "sages" mean?
As an adj, "sages" means: Pluriel de sage.
What words are commonly confused with "sages"?
"sages" is commonly confused with "ses", "sans", "sais". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sages"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sages" is \saʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sages" come from?
"sages" 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.