saigner
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,265
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
saigner is aFrenchverb. It means: Tirer du sang en ouvrant une veine. Pronounced \se.ɲe\. Often confused with signe and saine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saigner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \se.ɲe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,265 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for saigner is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \se.ɲe\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,265 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for saigner, with forms such as "asigner", "saginer", and "saigenr". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "signe", "saine", "signer", 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 saigner, spelled S-A-I-G-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tirer du sang en ouvrant une veine.
- 2Tuer ; égorger.
- 3Exiger, tirer de quelqu’un une somme considérable.
- 4Ruiner.
- 5Abuser de quelque chose ; utiliser de manière excessive ; terminer (le cas échéant).
- 6Perdre du sang.
- 7Faire mal, se dit en parlant d’une offense, d’une injure, d’un malheur dont on conserve encore, dont on conserve longtemps le souvenir de la douleur.
- 8Donner jusqu’à se gêner.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asigner,saginer,saigenr,saiggner,saignerr,saignner,saignre,sainger,siagner,ssaigner
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for saigner
Misspelling Variants of "saigner"
Frequency rank: #17,265 in French
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