sanglier
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,498
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
sanglier is aFrenchnoun. It means: N’importe quelle espèce de porcin du genre Sus, à l’exception des descendants domestiqués du sanglier d’Eurasie (Sus scrofa) nommés cochons ou porcs. Pronounced \sɑ̃.ɡli.je\. Often confused with singulier and sangliers.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sanglier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.ɡli.je\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,498 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sanglier is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɑ̃.ɡli.je\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,498 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for sanglier, with forms such as "asnglier", "sagnlier", and "sangglier". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "singulier", "sangliers", "sangle", 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 sanglier, spelled S-A-N-G-L-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1N’importe quelle espèce de porcin du genre Sus, à l’exception des descendants domestiqués du sanglier d’Eurasie (Sus scrofa) nommés cochons ou porcs.
- 2Sanglier d’Eurasie ou sanglier commun
- 3Viande de cet animal.
- 4Variante de sanglier commun (Sus scrofa scrofa).
- 5Porc sauvage d’Afrique : phacochère, hylochère et plus rarement potamochère.
- 6Se dit aussi d’un poisson de mer dont le museau a quelque ressemblance avec celui d’un porc et qui porte des écailles rudes au toucher, synonyme de sanglier de mer.
- 7Surnom que se donnent entre eux les Ardennais.
- 8Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté passant comme le porc dont il se distingue par la hure, des défenses et parfois une crinière. Sa queue est recercelée. À rapprocher de cochon, porc, truie et verrat.
- 9Douzième signe astrologique chinois, mis à l’honneur notamment en 2019 et tous les 12 ans.
- 10Prêtre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asnglier,sagnlier,sangglier,sangiler,sangleir,sanglierr,sanglire,sangllier,sanlgier,sannglier,snaglier,ssanglier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sanglier
Misspelling Variants of "sanglier"
Frequency rank: #15,498 in French
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