saké
\sa.ke\
The verdict
“saké” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,653. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,653
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vin de riz japonais, produit par fermentation comme la bière, titrant de 14° à 17°.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sake · saké · French
saké · rank #43,653 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,653
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH salinité
Nearest frequency peer: salinité (+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 « saké »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- réussissez
réussissez
56,352 corpus weight
- réélire
réélire
56,351 corpus weight
- saké
saké
56,348 corpus weight
- salinité
salinité
56,347 corpus weight
- Sancerre
Sancerre
56,346 corpus weight
- Sankara
Sankara
56,345 corpus weight
What this shows « saké » 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 | saké |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.ke\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #43,653 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « saké »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around saké (IPA \sa.ke\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,653 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Vin de riz japonais, produit par fermentation comme la bière, titrant de 14° à 17°.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for saké, with forms such as "aské", "sake", and "sakké". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "se", "san", "Ski", and more, 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is saké, spelled S-A-K-É.
Definition
- 1Vin de riz japonais, produit par fermentation comme la bière, titrant de 14° à 17°.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how saké appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Bon anniversaire alors! dis-je en levant mon verre de saké.
Devenu une icône internationale , David Bowie a appris à s’exporter. En 1980, il compose un morceau instrumental, Crystal Japan , pour faire la retape d’une marque de saké nippone, qu’il semble, à l’image, sérieusement apprécier.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aské
- sake
- sakké
- saék
- skaé
- ssaké
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of saké - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).