Sarah

\sa.ʁa\

/\sa.ʁa\/ name

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The verdict

“Sarah” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,292. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,292
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sarah · Sarah · French

Sarah · rank #3,292 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,292
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sable

Nearest frequency peer: sable (-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 « Sarah »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « Sarah » 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).

Sarah vs sera
40% similar
Sarah vs shah
40% similar
Sarah vs SARL
20% similar

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

Key facts for Sarah
PropertyValue
HeadwordSarah
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\sa.ʁa\
Letters5
Frequency rank#3,292
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Sarah »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Sarahse 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 « sable » (#3,291), « sel » (#3,293), « réalise » (#3,290). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « Sarah » est au #3,292. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around Sarah (IPA \sa.ʁa\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #3,292 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom féminin.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sarah, with forms such as "asrah", "saarh", and "sarahh". 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, "sera", "shah", "SARL", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Sarah, spelled S-A-R-A-H.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prénom féminin.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Je trouvais Sarah Bernhardt grotesque. Et puis, j'admirais trop Réjane. À mes yeux, louer Sarah, c'eût été trahir Réjane.
  2. Cet argent sera prélevé sur le compte que j’ai ouvert pour Hector afin qu’il puisse ouvrir un cabinet quand Sarah prendra les commandes du cabinet d’expertise comptable.

This word in other languages

Sarah(English)Sahra(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asrah
  • saarh
  • sarahh
  • sarha
  • sarrah
  • sraah
  • ssarah

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

asrah2saarh2sarahh1sarha2sarrah1sraah2ssarah1
Edit distance from "Sarah"

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 "Sarah"?
"Sarah" is spelled S-A-R-A-H. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.ʁa\.
What does "Sarah" mean?
As a proper noun, "Sarah" means: Prénom féminin.
What words are commonly confused with "Sarah"?
"Sarah" is commonly confused with "sera", "shah", "SARL". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Sarah"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Sarah" is \sa.ʁa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Sarah" come from?
"Sarah" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

sable#3,291toile#3,299longs#3,271fruit#3,262

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

romain7 variantsavenue7 variantsconçu7 variantsfoyer7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list