sagittaire

\sa.ʒi.tɛʁ\

/\sa.ʒi.tɛʁ\/ adj

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The verdict

“sagittaire” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,585. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#32,585
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui lance des flèches.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sagittaire · sagittaire · French

sagittaire · rank #32,585 · 12 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #32,585
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sacristie

Nearest frequency peer: sacristie (-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 « sagittaire »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « sagittaire » 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).

sagittaire vs sanitaire
80% similar

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

Key facts for sagittaire
PropertyValue
Headwordsagittaire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\sa.ʒi.tɛʁ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#32,585
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sagittaire »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).sagittairese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sacristie » (#32,584), « sauvées » (#32,586), « réédité » (#32,583). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sagittaire » est au #32,585. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around sagittaire (IPA \sa.ʒi.tɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,585 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui lance des flèches.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for sagittaire, with forms such as "asgittaire", "saggittaire", and "sagitaire". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "sanitaire", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sagittaire, spelled S-A-G-I-T-T-A-I-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui lance des flèches.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. … la douceur de ses yeux sagittaires et la douceur de sa bouche de peste me congestionnaient.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asgittaire
  • saggittaire
  • sagitaire
  • sagitatire
  • sagittaier
  • sagittairre
  • sagittarie
  • sagittiare
  • sagtitaire
  • saigttaire
  • sgaittaire
  • ssagittaire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

asgittaire2saggittaire1sagitaire1sagitatire2sagittaier2sagittairre1sagittarie2sagittiare2
Edit distance from "sagittaire"

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 "sagittaire"?
"sagittaire" is spelled S-A-G-I-T-T-A-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.ʒi.tɛʁ\.
What does "sagittaire" mean?
As an adjective, "sagittaire" means: Qui lance des flèches.
What words are commonly confused with "sagittaire"?
"sagittaire" is commonly confused with "sanitaire". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sagittaire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sagittaire" is \sa.ʒi.tɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sagittaire" come from?
"sagittaire" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sagittaire", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list