sain
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,135
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sain is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est de bonne constitution, qui n’a pas de tares en son organisme. Qui n’est pas altéré, qui est en bon état. Pronounced \sɛ̃\. It ranks #6,135 in French word frequency. Often confused with si and sn.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \sɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #6,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sain is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,135 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for sain, with forms such as "asin", "sainn", and "sani". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "si", "sn", "son", 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 sain, spelled S-A-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est de bonne constitution, qui n’a pas de tares en son organisme. Qui n’est pas altéré, qui est en bon état.
- 2Se dit dans le même sens des fruits, des plantes et d’autres choses inanimées.
- 3Se dit dans le même sens des jugements, de l’esprit, de ses conceptions.
- 4Se dit aussi, en termes de morale et de littérature, des doctrines conformes à la vertu, à la raison, au bon goût.
- 5Qui est salubre, qui contribue à la santé.
- 6Qui ne présente pas de danger, pas d’écueils.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asin,sainn,sani,sian,ssain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sain
Misspelling Variants of "sain"
Frequency rank: #6,135 in French
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