sagesse
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,921
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
sagesse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Prudence, circonspection, sentiment juste des choses. Pronounced \sa.ʒɛs\. It ranks #5,921 in French word frequency. Often confused with stressé and sages.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sagesse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.ʒɛs\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,921 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sagesse is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sa.ʒɛs\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,921 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for sagesse, with forms such as "asgesse", "saegsse", and "sagese". 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, "stressé", "sages", 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 sagesse, spelled S-A-G-E-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Prudence, circonspection, sentiment juste des choses.
- 2Modération, retenue, maîtrise de soi.
- 3Modestie, pudeur, chasteté, surtout en parlant des jeunes filles et des femmes.
- 4Caractère prudent, circonspect, d’actions, de paroles, etc.
- 5En parlant des ouvrages de l’esprit ou des œuvres d’art, soin que l’on met à éviter ce qui est outré, extravagant, à se renfermer, non sans quelque timidité, dans les bornes prescrites par la raison et par le goût.
- 6Connaissance naturelle ou acquise des choses, les lumières de l’esprit.
- 7Connaissance inspirée des choses divines et humaines.
- 8Aptitude d’un cheval de trot à rester sage, c’est-à-dire à ne pas se montrer fautif en se mettant au galop.
- 9À Donjons & Dragons, et d’autres jeux de rôle, caractéristique (valeur chiffrée) représentant la vigilance d’un personnage, sa capacité à percevoir son environnement et son intuition.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asgesse,saegsse,sagese,sageses,saggesse,sagsese,sgaesse,ssagesse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sagesse
Misspelling Variants of "sagesse"
Frequency rank: #5,921 in French
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