san
\san\
The verdict
“san” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,493) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #2,493
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ϻ et ϻ, ancienne lettre de l’alphabet grec.
Corpus desk
Index FR-san · san · French
san · rank #2,493 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,493
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH repris
Nearest frequency peer: repris (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « san »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- pilote
pilote
97,511 corpus weight
- plat
plat
97,510 corpus weight
- repris
repris
97,509 corpus weight
- san
san
97,508 corpus weight
- servi
servi
97,507 corpus weight
- surpris
surpris
97,506 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « san » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | san |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \san\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #2,493 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « san »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for san is neighbouring look-alikes ("se", "si", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \san\. Frequency #2,493 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Ϻ et ϻ, ancienne lettre de l’alphabet grec.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for san in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "se", "si", "st", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is san, spelled S-A-N.
Definition
- 1Ϻ et ϻ, ancienne lettre de l’alphabet grec.
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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