sanctuaires
\sɑ̃k.tɥɛʁ\
The verdict
“sanctuaires” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,767. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,767
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sanctuaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sanctuaires · sanctuaires · French
sanctuaires · rank #24,767 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,767
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sanctionnée
Nearest frequency peer: sanctionnée (-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 « sanctuaires »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- salement
salement
75,237 corpus weight
- sall
sall
75,236 corpus weight
- sanctionnée
sanctionnée
75,235 corpus weight
- sanctuaires
sanctuaires
75,234 corpus weight
- sarcastique
sarcastique
75,233 corpus weight
- saurons
saurons
75,232 corpus weight
What this shows « sanctuaires » 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 | sanctuaires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃k.tɥɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #24,767 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sanctuaires »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around sanctuaires (IPA \sɑ̃k.tɥɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,767 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de sanctuaire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for sanctuaires, with forms such as "asnctuaires", "sacntuaires", and "sancctuaires". 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 also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "sanitaires", "sanctuaire", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is sanctuaires, spelled S-A-N-C-T-U-A-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sanctuaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sanctuaires appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour encourager ce mouvement dans l’un des sanctuaires du calvinisme, le roi nomma cettui Milaud à un poste élevé dans les Eaux et Forêts, lui donna des armes et le titre de Sire de La Baudraye en lui faisant présent du fief des vrais et vieux La Baudraye.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asnctuaires
- sacntuaires
- sancctuaires
- sanctauires
- sancttuaires
- sanctuaiers
- sanctuairess
- sanctuairres
- sanctuairse
- sanctuaries
- sanctuiares
- sancutaires
- sannctuaires
- santcuaires
- snactuaires
- ssanctuaires
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sanctuaires - 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
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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 (16 here; floor ≥5).