saignée

/\sɛ.ɲe\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#38,531

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

17

similar word pairs

saignée is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ouverture d’une veine pour tirer du sang. Pronounced \sɛ.ɲe\. Often confused with signe and saine.

Key facts for saignée
PropertyValue
Headwordsaignée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɛ.ɲe\
Letters7
Frequency rank#38,531
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs17
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for saignée is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛ.ɲe\. Corpus data places it at rank #38,531 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for saignée, with forms such as "saginée", "saiggnée", and "saignee". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "signe", "saine", "sainte", 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 saignée, spelled S-A-I-G-N-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ouverture d’une veine pour tirer du sang.
  2. 2
    Sang qu’on tire par l’ouverture d’une veine.
  3. 3
    Se dit quand on a tiré de quelqu’un beaucoup d’argent, quand on a exigé de lui une somme considérable.
  4. 4
    Partie interne de la jointure du bras et de l’avant-bras, qui est l’endroit où l’on tire le plus souvent du sang.
  5. 5
    Pertes d’hommes faites durant une guerre.
  6. 6
    Rigole que l’on fait pour tirer de l’eau de quelque endroit.
  7. 7
    Entaille profonde de faible épaisseur, par exemple dans un mur.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: saginée,saiggnée,saignee,saigneé,saignnée,saigéne,saingée,siagnée,ssaignée

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for saignée

Misspelling Variants of "saignée"

saginée7saiggnée8saignee7saigneé7saignnée8saigéne7saingée7siagnée7
Misspelling Variants of "saignée"

Frequency rank: #38,531 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "saignée"?
"saignée" is spelled S-A-I-G-N-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sɛ.ɲe\.
What does "saignée" mean?
As a noun, "saignée" means: Ouverture d’une veine pour tirer du sang.
What words are commonly confused with "saignée"?
"saignée" is commonly confused with "signe", "saine", "sainte". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "saignée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "saignée" is \sɛ.ɲe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "saignée" come from?
"saignée" 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.