sans
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#80
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sans is aFrenchprep. It means: Préposition marquant l’absence, le manque, l’exclusion d’une personne, d’une chose. — Note d’usage : On n’utilise généralement pas d’article indéfini ou partitif. Peut s’accentuer avec aucun. Pronounced \sɑ̃\. It ranks #80 in French word frequency. Often confused with ss and sn.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sans |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Prep |
| IPA | \sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #80 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sans is 4 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #80 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for sans, with forms such as "asns", "sanns", and "sanss". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ss", "sn", "son", 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 sans, spelled S-A-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Préposition marquant l’absence, le manque, l’exclusion d’une personne, d’une chose. — Note d’usage : On n’utilise généralement pas d’article indéfini ou partitif. Peut s’accentuer avec aucun.
- 2Elle se place aussi devant un infinitif pour marquer l’absence, le manque d’une manière d’être ou d’agir.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asns,sanns,sanss,sasn,snas,ssans
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sans
Misspelling Variants of "sans"
Frequency rank: #80 in French
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