Sahara
\sa.a.ʁa\
The verdict
“Sahara” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,252. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,252
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vaste désert chaud situé dans la partie nord du continent africain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sahara · Sahara · French
Sahara · rank #12,252 · 8 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,252
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Saguenay
Nearest frequency peer: Saguenay (-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 « Sahara »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rétro
rétro
87,752 corpus weight
- réélu
réélu
87,751 corpus weight
- Saguenay
Saguenay
87,750 corpus weight
- Sahara
Sahara
87,749 corpus weight
- santos
santos
87,748 corpus weight
- satisfaisant
satisfaisant
87,747 corpus weight
What this shows « Sahara » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sahara |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sa.a.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,252 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Sahara »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Sahara (IPA \sa.a.ʁa\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #12,252 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Vaste désert chaud situé dans la partie nord du continent africain.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sahara, with forms such as "ashara", "saahra", and "sahaar". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "sara", "saura", "sharp", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Sahara, spelled S-A-H-A-R-A.
Definition
- 1Vaste désert chaud situé dans la partie nord du continent africain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sahara appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces chasseurs du Sahara sont des hommes rudes et primitifs, vivant à ciel ouvert, sans résidence fixe.
En descendant la côte d’Afrique, quand on a dépassé l’extrémité sud du Maroc, on suit pendant des jours et des nuits un interminable pays désolé. C’est le Sahara, la « grande mer sans eau » que les Maures appellent aussi « Bled-el-Ateuch », le pays de la soif.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ashara
- saahra
- sahaar
- saharra
- sahhara
- sahraa
- shaara
- ssahara
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sahara - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).