saine
\sɛn\
The verdict
“saine” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,996. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,996
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de sain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-saine · saine · French
saine · rank #6,996 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,996
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH rires
Nearest frequency peer: rires (-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 « saine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- reconnus
reconnus
93,008 corpus weight
- reconstruct…
reconstruction
93,007 corpus weight
- rires
rires
93,006 corpus weight
- saine
saine
93,005 corpus weight
- sauvetage
sauvetage
93,004 corpus weight
- sexualité
sexualité
93,003 corpus weight
What this shows « saine » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | saine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɛn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,996 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « saine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around saine (IPA \sɛn\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,996 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de sain.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for saine, with forms such as "asine", "saien", and "sainne". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "san", "sin", "sie", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is saine, spelled S-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de sain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how saine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si certains se targuèrent alors de rendre la chose plus « transparente » donc soi-disant plus saine, cela revenait tout de même à leur permettre de faire du renseignement législatif voire d’influencer nos élus.
Attention au ʺténiaʺ, cher Michel. C’est le mot de Céline sur Sartre dans L’Agité du bocal. Et vous faites, en le reprenant, d’une pierre deux (mauvais) coups : trop d’honneur à ce personnage que vous comparez implicitement à Sartre et qui, lorsque nous publierons ces lettres, ne manquera pas d’en profiter pour se pousser du col ; et un mauvais coup contr…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asine
- saien
- sainne
- sanie
- siane
- ssaine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of saine - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "saine", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).