sanitaires
\sa.ni.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“sanitaires” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,158. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,158
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble des commodités relatives à l’hygiène (comme les lavabos, les toilettes…).
Corpus desk
Index FR-sanitaires · sanitaires · French
sanitaires · rank #8,158 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,158
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sanctuaire
Nearest frequency peer: sanctuaire (-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 « sanitaires »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sacrifier
sacrifier
91,845 corpus weight
- sanctuaire
sanctuaire
91,844 corpus weight
- sanitaires
sanitaires
91,843 corpus weight
- school
school
91,842 corpus weight
- segment
segment
91,841 corpus weight
- shopping
shopping
91,840 corpus weight
What this shows « sanitaires » 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 | sanitaires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.ni.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #8,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sanitaires »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around sanitaires (IPA \sa.ni.tɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,158 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ensemble des commodités relatives à l’hygiène (comme les lavabos, les toilettes…).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for sanitaires, with forms such as "asnitaires", "saintaires", and "saniatires". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "solitaires", "sanitaire", "sanctuaires", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sanitaires, spelled S-A-N-I-T-A-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des commodités relatives à l’hygiène (comme les lavabos, les toilettes…).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sanitaires appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’y pense, tu devrais appeler un plombier. Nous avons des ennuis avec les sanitaires… La chasse, encore.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asnitaires
- saintaires
- saniatires
- sanitaiers
- sanitairess
- sanitairres
- sanitairse
- sanitaries
- sanitiares
- sanittaires
- sannitaires
- santiaires
- snaitaires
- ssanitaires
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sanitaires - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).