saignement

\sɛɲ.mɑ̃\

/\sɛɲ.mɑ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“saignement” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,583. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#36,583
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Écoulement, épanchement de sang, principalement par le nez.

Corpus desk

Index FR-saignement · saignement · French

saignement · rank #36,583 · 15 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #36,583
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH saignements

Nearest frequency peer: saignements (+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 « saignement »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « saignement » 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).

saignement vs saignent
80% similar
saignement vs sainement
90% similar
saignement vs saignements
91% similar

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

Key facts for saignement
PropertyValue
Headwordsaignement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɛɲ.mɑ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#36,583
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « saignement »

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « saignements » (#36,584), « Salonique » (#36,585), « rénovés » (#36,580). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « saignement » est au #36,583. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around saignement (IPA \sɛɲ.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,583 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Écoulement, épanchement de sang, principalement par le nez.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for saignement, with forms such as "asignement", "saginement", and "saigenment". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "saignent", "sainement", "saignements", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is saignement, spelled S-A-I-G-N-E-M-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Écoulement, épanchement de sang, principalement par le nez.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Vers cette époque, et sans doute à cause de l’état de fatigue où je me trouvais, je fus victime de saignements assez violents.
  2. Oui, tout va bien, madame Deck, vous pouvez arrêter les anticoagulants, c’est à cause d’eux que vous avez ce vilain saignement sous-cutané, de toute façon vous avez rendez-vous avec la cardiologue la semaine prochaine pour faire le point.

This word in other languages

bleeding(English)sangrado(Español)Blutung(Deutsch)sangramento(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asignement
  • saginement
  • saigenment
  • saiggnement
  • saigneemnt
  • saignemennt
  • saignementt
  • saignemetn
  • saignemment
  • saignemnet
  • saignmeent
  • saignnement
  • saingement
  • siagnement
  • ssaignement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of saignement - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

asignement2saginement2saigenment2saiggnement1saigneemnt2saignemennt1saignementt1saignemetn2
Edit distance from "saignement"

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 "saignement"?
"saignement" is spelled S-A-I-G-N-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \sɛɲ.mɑ̃\.
What does "saignement" mean?
As a noun, "saignement" means: Écoulement, épanchement de sang, principalement par le nez.
What words are commonly confused with "saignement"?
"saignement" is commonly confused with "saignent", "sainement", "saignements". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "saignement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "saignement" is \sɛɲ.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "saignement" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "saignement", 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 (15 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list