saisine
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,686
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
saisine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Appel ou recours à une juridiction. Pronounced \se.zin\. Often confused with saison and saisir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saisine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.zin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #23,686 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for saisine is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \se.zin\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,686 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for saisine, with forms such as "asisine", "saiisne", and "saisien". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "saison", "saisir", "saisis", 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 saisine, spelled S-A-I-S-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Appel ou recours à une juridiction.
- 2Se dit de la possession – d’un bien immeuble en général – qui appartient de plein droit à un héritier, par opposition à l’« envoi en possession ».
- 3Sous la tenure féodale, le droit à la jouissance précaire (possession ou occupation) d’un bien-fonds tenu en fief.
- 4Cordage servant à saisir, à fixer.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asisine,saiisne,saisien,saisinne,saisnie,saissine,sasiine,siasine,ssaisine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for saisine
Misspelling Variants of "saisine"
Frequency rank: #23,686 in French
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