sainteté

\sɛ̃t.te\

/\sɛ̃t.te\/ noun

The verdict

“sainteté” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,006. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#16,006
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité de ce qui est saint.

Corpus desk

Index FR-saintete · sainteté · French

sainteté · rank #16,006 · 12 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,006
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sacrifié

Nearest frequency peer: sacrifié (-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 « sainteté »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « sainteté » 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).

sainteté vs sainte
75% similar
sainteté vs saintes
75% similar

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

Key facts for sainteté
PropertyValue
Headwordsainteté
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɛ̃t.te\
Letters8
Frequency rank#16,006
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sainteté »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).saintetése 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 « sacrifié » (#16,005), « salir » (#16,007), « répand » (#16,004). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sainteté » est au #16,006. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around sainteté (IPA \sɛ̃t.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,006 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for sainteté, with forms such as "asinteté", "sainetté", and "sainnteté". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "sainte", "saintes", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sainteté, spelled S-A-I-N-T-E-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qualité de ce qui est saint.
  2. 2
    Code de comportement rigoureux rejetant toute forme de mauvaise action.
  3. 3
    Sa Sainteté : Titre d’honneur et de respect, dont on se sert en parlant au Pape ou du Pape.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le modèle de la sainteté mis en place dès le haut Moyen Âge consiste également à minorer tout ce que chacun peut recevoir de ses parents (…) et à survaloriser tout ce qu’apporte la conversion à dieu.
  2. Elle imagina qu’en devenant irréprochable, catholiquement parlant, elle arriverait à un tel état de sainteté, que Dieu l’écouterait et accomplirait ses désirs.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asinteté
  • sainetté
  • sainnteté
  • saintete
  • saintetté
  • sainteét
  • saintteté
  • saintteé
  • saitneté
  • saniteté
  • sianteté
  • ssainteté

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sainteté - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

asinteté2sainetté2sainnteté1saintete1saintetté1sainteét2saintteté1saintteé2
Edit distance from "sainteté"

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 "sainteté"?
"sainteté" is spelled S-A-I-N-T-E-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \sɛ̃t.te\.
What does "sainteté" mean?
As a noun, "sainteté" means: Qualité de ce qui est saint.
What words are commonly confused with "sainteté"?
"sainteté" is commonly confused with "sainte", "saintes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sainteté"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sainteté" is \sɛ̃t.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sainteté" come from?
"sainteté" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sainteté", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list