sanctuaire
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,157
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
sanctuaire is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lieu le plus saint d’un temple ; partie interdite aux profanes dans les temples consacrés aux divinités du paganisme. Pronounced \sɑ̃k.tɥɛʁ\. It ranks #8,157 in French word frequency. Often confused with sanitaire and sanctuaires.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sanctuaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃k.tɥɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #8,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sanctuaire is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɑ̃k.tɥɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,157 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for sanctuaire, with forms such as "asnctuaire", "sacntuaire", and "sancctuaire". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "sanitaire", "sanctuaires", 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 sanctuaire, spelled S-A-N-C-T-U-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lieu le plus saint d’un temple ; partie interdite aux profanes dans les temples consacrés aux divinités du paganisme.
- 2Partie de l’église où est le maitre-autel et qui est ordinairement entourée d’un chancel.
- 3Édifice ou lieu consacré aux cérémonies d’un culte.
- 4Lieu où la puissance temporelle de l'État ne s'exerçait pas.
- 5Lieu où s'exerce une activité profondément respectée ou particulièrement révérée.
- 6Lieu où l'on est protégé de toute présence importune.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asnctuaire,sacntuaire,sancctuaire,sanctauire,sancttuaire,sanctuaier,sanctuairre,sanctuarie,sanctuiare,sancutaire,sannctuaire,santcuaire,snactuaire,ssanctuaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sanctuaire
Misspelling Variants of "sanctuaire"
Frequency rank: #8,157 in French
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