sanctionner
\sɑ̃k.sjɔ.ne\
The verdict
“sanctionner” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,032. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,032
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Approuver, confirmer, donner la sanction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sanctionner · sanctionner · French
sanctionner · rank #15,032 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,032
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH salué
Nearest frequency peer: salué (-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 « sanctionner »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rééducation
rééducation
84,972 corpus weight
- sabine
sabine
84,971 corpus weight
- salué
salué
84,970 corpus weight
- sanctionner
sanctionner
84,969 corpus weight
- sanguine
sanguine
84,968 corpus weight
- screen
screen
84,967 corpus weight
What this shows « sanctionner » 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 | 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sanctionner »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around sanctionner (IPA \sɑ̃k.sjɔ.ne\), averb. Corpus frequency is #15,032 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 sanctionner, spelled S-A-N-C-T-I-O-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Approuver, confirmer, donner la sanction.
- 2Réprimer une infraction, un crime, une faute ; les punir par une sanction, une pénalité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sanctionner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les députés se demandèrent donc si la sanction royale étaient indispensable à la validité des textes constituants. […]. Les lois constitutionnelles ne devaient donc pas être sanctionnées par le roi.
C’est un usage sanctionné par le temps.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asnctionner
- sacntionner
- sancctionner
- sancitonner
- sanctinoner
- sanctionenr
- sanctioner
- sanctionnerr
- sanctionnre
- sanctoinner
- sancttionner
- sannctionner
- santcionner
- snactionner
- ssanctionner
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sanctionner - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sanctionner", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).