santé

\sɑ̃.te\

/\sɑ̃.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“santé” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #496. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#496
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État sain de l’organisme.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sante · santé · French

santé · rank #496 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #496
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH seront

Nearest frequency peer: seront (+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 « santé »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « santé » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

santé vs ste
40% similar
santé vs sat
60% similar
santé vs sont
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for santé
PropertyValue
Headwordsanté
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɑ̃.te\
Letters5
Frequency rank#496
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « santé »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).santése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « seront » (#497), « points » (#494), « train » (#498). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « santé » est au #496. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around santé (IPA \sɑ̃.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #496 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for santé, with forms such as "asnté", "sannté", and "sante". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ste", "sat", "sont", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is santé, spelled S-A-N-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    État sain de l’organisme.
  2. 2
    Bon état du moral, de la raison.
  3. 3
    État de l’organisme, bon ou mauvais ; manière dont on se porte.
  4. 4
    Verre bu en souhaitant à quelqu’un d’être en bonne santé.
  5. 5
    Lieu où l’on retient en quarantaine, après leur débarquement, les voyageurs arrivant d’un pays où règne une maladie épidémique ou contagieuse.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how santé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Impossible de voir deux plus belles santés que celles de ces honnêtes gentlemen ; impossible aussi de rencontrer deux physionomies plus candides.
  2. Ils se plaisaient à simuler leurs maux passés, pour en rappeler l’image à tous les yeux et mieux jouir de la santé présente.

Antonyms

maladie

This word in other languages

health(English)salud(Español)Gesundheit(Deutsch)saúde(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asnté
  • sannté
  • sante
  • santté
  • sanét
  • satné
  • snaté
  • ssanté

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of santé - 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.

asnté2sannté1sante1santté1sanét2satné2snaté2ssanté1
Edit distance from "santé"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "santé"?
"santé" is spelled S-A-N-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \sɑ̃.te\.
What does "santé" mean?
As a noun, "santé" means: État sain de l’organisme.
What words are commonly confused with "santé"?
"santé" is commonly confused with "ste", "sat", "sont". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "santé"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "santé" is \sɑ̃.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "santé" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "santé", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

train#498écrit#500force#490doute#489

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

époque8 variantsfaites8 variantsjuillet8 variantsdroite8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list