sarcophage
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,970
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
sarcophage is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui se nourrit des chairs d'un hôte mort. Pronounced \saʁ.kɔ.faʒ\. Often confused with sarcophages.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sarcophage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \saʁ.kɔ.faʒ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #29,970 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sarcophage is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \saʁ.kɔ.faʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #29,970 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for sarcophage, with forms such as "asrcophage", "sacrophage", and "sarccophage". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "sarcophages", 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 sarcophage, spelled S-A-R-C-O-P-H-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui se nourrit des chairs d'un hôte mort.
- 2Qui ronge les chairs.
- 3Qui n’accepte de consommer des produits carnés que s’ils ne rappellent en rien l’animal dont ils sont tirés, par opposition la personne zoophage, qui accepte les produits aisément identifiables.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asrcophage,sacrophage,sarccophage,sarcohpage,sarcopahge,sarcophaeg,sarcophagge,sarcophgae,sarcophhage,sarcopphage,sarcpohage,sarocphage,sarrcophage,sracophage,ssarcophage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sarcophage
Misspelling Variants of "sarcophage"
Frequency rank: #29,970 in French
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