sanglant
\sɑ̃.ɡlɑ̃\
The verdict
“sanglant” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,592. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,592
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est taché de sang, souillé de sang.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sanglant · sanglant · French
sanglant · rank #18,592 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,592
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Samir
Nearest frequency peer: Samir (-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 « sanglant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sabotage
sabotage
81,412 corpus weight
- safran
safran
81,411 corpus weight
- Samir
Samir
81,410 corpus weight
- sanglant
sanglant
81,409 corpus weight
- sceptiques
sceptiques
81,408 corpus weight
- sentimental
sentimental
81,407 corpus weight
What this shows « sanglant » 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 | sanglant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.ɡlɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,592 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sanglant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around sanglant (IPA \sɑ̃.ɡlɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,592 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for sanglant, with forms such as "asnglant", "sagnlant", and "sangalnt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "sanglante", "sanglants", "sanglantes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sanglant, spelled S-A-N-G-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est taché de sang, souillé de sang.
- 2Où il y a beaucoup de sang répandu ; qui cause beaucoup de morts et de blessés.
- 3Qui a la couleur du sang ; sanguin.
- 4Qui est outrageux, profondément blessant.
- 5Coupable d’un grave forfait, de crimes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sanglant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mort sanglante, mort violente avec effusion de sang.
Bizarrement, son cadavre sanglant ne la dérangeait pas : il lui faisait à peu près le même effet qu’un zombie de pacotille dans une maison hantée de fête foraine.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asnglant
- sagnlant
- sangalnt
- sangglant
- sanglannt
- sanglantt
- sanglatn
- sangllant
- sanglnat
- sanlgant
- sannglant
- snaglant
- ssanglant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sanglant - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).