sapins
\sa.pɛ̃\
The verdict
“sapins” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,412. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,412
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sapin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sapins · sapins · French
sapins · rank #22,412 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,412
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH salafistes
Nearest frequency peer: salafistes (-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 « sapins »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- réservez
réservez
77,592 corpus weight
- résilier
résilier
77,591 corpus weight
- salafistes
salafistes
77,590 corpus weight
- sapins
sapins
77,589 corpus weight
- satin
satin
77,588 corpus weight
- savantes
savantes
77,587 corpus weight
What this shows « sapins » 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 | sapins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.pɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #22,412 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sapins »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around sapins (IPA \sa.pɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,412 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de sapin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for sapins, with forms such as "aspins", "saipns", and "sapinns". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "spin", "soins", "seins", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sapins, spelled S-A-P-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sapin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sapins appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A Flaine, sept immenses arbres (9,20 m), sortis d’une maquette de « L’Hourloupe » — tous blancs avec leurs nombreuses stries noires, liés les uns aux autres (une danse) — s’amusent à concurrencer les sapins du fond, froids et rigides : ils nous disent ce que Dubuffet a tenté et réussi, abêtir ("balourdiser") le réel.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aspins
- saipns
- sapinns
- sapinss
- sapisn
- sapnis
- sappins
- spains
- ssapins
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sapins - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).