sanatorium
\sa.na.tɔ.ʁjɔm\
The verdict
“sanatorium” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,002. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,002
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maison de santé où l’on soigne au grand air certains malades, plus spécialement ceux atteints de tuberculose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sanatorium · sanatorium · French
sanatorium · rank #40,002 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,002
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Samaritain
Nearest frequency peer: Samaritain (-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 « sanatorium »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- salto
salto
60,002 corpus weight
- Salvini
Salvini
60,001 corpus weight
- Samaritain
Samaritain
60,000 corpus weight
- sanatorium
sanatorium
59,999 corpus weight
- sangs
sangs
59,998 corpus weight
- Sarr
Sarr
59,997 corpus weight
What this shows « sanatorium » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sanatorium |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.na.tɔ.ʁjɔm\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #40,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sanatorium »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around sanatorium (IPA \sa.na.tɔ.ʁjɔm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,002 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Maison de santé où l’on soigne au grand air certains malades, plus spécialement ceux atteints de tuberculose.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for sanatorium, with forms such as "asnatorium", "saantorium", and "sanaotrium". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is sanatorium, spelled S-A-N-A-T-O-R-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1Maison de santé où l’on soigne au grand air certains malades, plus spécialement ceux atteints de tuberculose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sanatorium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il était trop tard pour parler de campagne, de régime doux, de petit voyage : tout de suite, j’ai deviné, sur des lèvres réticentes de médecins, le mot de sanatorium…
Jean-Louis, qui a obtenu l’autorisation de correspondre avec elle, m’écrit de son sanatorium qu’elle est une grande âme, faite pour le plus haut amour.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asnatorium
- saantorium
- sanaotrium
- sanatoirum
- sanatorimu
- sanatoriumm
- sanatorrium
- sanatoruim
- sanatroium
- sanattorium
- sannatorium
- santaorium
- snaatorium
- ssanatorium
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sanatorium - 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.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).