sais
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#188
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sais is aFrenchnoun. It means: En Inde, palefrenier qui accompagne son maître lors de ses sorties à cheval. Pronounced \sɛ\. It ranks #188 in French word frequency. Often confused with si and ss.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #188 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sais is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #188 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "En Inde, palefrenier qui accompagne son maître lors de ses sorties à cheval.".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for sais, with forms such as "asis", "saiss", and "sasi". 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", "ss", "ses", 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 sais, spelled S-A-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1En Inde, palefrenier qui accompagne son maître lors de ses sorties à cheval.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asis,saiss,sasi,sias,ssais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sais
Misspelling Variants of "sais"
Frequency rank: #188 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter S in our French index: