sanctionner
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,032
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
sanctionner is aFrenchverb. It means: Approuver, confirmer, donner la sanction. Pronounced \sɑ̃k.sjɔ.ne\. Often confused with sanctionnés and sanctionné.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sanctionner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɑ̃k.sjɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #15,032 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sanctionner is 11 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɑ̃k.sjɔ.ne\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,032 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for sanctionner, with forms such as "asnctionner", "sacntionner", and "sancctionner". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "sanctionnés", "sanctionné", "sanctionnée", 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 sanctionner, spelled S-A-N-C-T-I-O-N-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Approuver, confirmer, donner la sanction.
- 2Réprimer une infraction, un crime, une faute ; les punir par une sanction, une pénalité.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asnctionner,sacntionner,sancctionner,sancitonner,sanctinoner,sanctionenr,sanctioner,sanctionnerr,sanctionnre,sanctoinner,sancttionner,sannctionner,santcionner,snactionner,ssanctionner
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sanctionner
Misspelling Variants of "sanctionner"
Frequency rank: #15,032 in French
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