saphir
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,530
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
saphir is aFrenchnoun. It means: Variété de gemme de corindon, translucide et pouvant présenter de multiples couleurs, sauf la couleur rouge qui désigne alors uniquement le rubis. Sa formule chimique est Al₂O₃. Pronounced \sa.fiʁ\. Often confused with sapin and savoir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saphir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.fiʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #26,530 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for saphir is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sa.fiʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #26,530 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for saphir, with forms such as "asphir", "sahpir", and "saphhir". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "sapin", "savoir", "Sophie", 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 saphir, spelled S-A-P-H-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Variété de gemme de corindon, translucide et pouvant présenter de multiples couleurs, sauf la couleur rouge qui désigne alors uniquement le rubis. Sa formule chimique est Al₂O₃.
- 2Bijou orné de cette pierre.
- 3Pointe de lecture des électrophones, moins onéreuse mais moins résistante que le diamant.
- 4Nom normalisé donné à deux genres d'oiseaux-mouches de la sous-famille des trochilinés comprenant au total dix espèces caractérisées par leur bec rouge corail à extrémité noire, par leur plumage vert à reflets très métalliques, comportant des plages d'un beau bleu indigo chez la plupart des espèces, ainsi qu'une queue rousse ou à reflets bronzés, et qui fréquentent divers habitats de forêts clairsemées à travers toute l'écozone néotropicale (genres Hylocharis et Chrysuronia).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asphir,sahpir,saphhir,saphirr,saphri,sapihr,sapphir,spahir,ssaphir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for saphir
Misspelling Variants of "saphir"
Frequency rank: #26,530 in French
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