sai
\ˈsaɪ\
The verdict
“sai” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,527) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,527
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Saï (arme japonaise).
Corpus desk
Index FR-sai · sai · French
sai · rank #26,527 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,527
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH saoudienne
Nearest frequency peer: saoudienne (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « sai »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- saboter
saboter
73,477 corpus weight
- sad
sad
73,476 corpus weight
- sai
sai
73,474 corpus weight
- saoudienne
saoudienne
73,473 corpus weight
- sap
sap
73,472 corpus weight
- saphir
saphir
73,471 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « sai » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | sai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈsaɪ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #26,527 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « sai »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sai is neighbouring look-alikes ("se", "si", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈsaɪ\. Frequency #26,527 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Saï (arme japonaise).".
sai doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "se", "si", "st", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sai, spelled S-A-I.
Definition
- 1Saï (arme japonaise).
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).