sait

\sɛ\

/\sɛ\/ verb

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The verdict

“sait” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #393. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#393
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de savoir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sait · sait · French

sait · rank #393 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #393
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH saison

Nearest frequency peer: saison (-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 « sait »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « sait » 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).

sait vs si
50% similar
sait vs st
50% similar
sait vs six
50% similar

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

Key facts for sait
PropertyValue
Headwordsait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\sɛ\
Letters4
Frequency rank#393
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sait »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.saitse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « saison » (#392), « type » (#394), « plan » (#391). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sait » est au #393. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around sait (IPA \sɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #393 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de savoir.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for sait, with forms such as "asit", "saitt", and "sati". 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, "si", "st", "six", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sait, spelled S-A-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de savoir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Par avance, il sait ce qu’il trouvera d’imparfait, de médiocre, de mal, d’immuable, en dépit des conseils, des admonestations ou reproches qu’il prodigue et ressasse à chaque inspection.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asit
  • saitt
  • sati
  • siat
  • ssait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sait - 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.

asit2saitt1sati2siat2ssait1
Edit distance from "sait"

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 "sait"?
"sait" is spelled S-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \sɛ\.
What does "sait" mean?
As a verb, "sait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de savoir.
What words are commonly confused with "sait"?
"sait" is commonly confused with "si", "st", "six". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sait" is \sɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sait" come from?
"sait" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

type#394afin#395plan#391mise#390

Similar misspelling depth

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

belle5 variantsterre5 variantsyeux5 variantshaut5 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list