Sardaigne

\saʁ.dɛɲ\

/\saʁ.dɛɲ\/ name

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The verdict

“Sardaigne” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,558. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#17,558
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième plus grande île de Méditerranée après la Sicile, baignée par la mer Tyrrhénienne (autrefois aussi appelée mer Sardonienne) à l’est et la Méditerranée occidentale à l’ouest.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sardaigne · Sardaigne · French

Sardaigne · rank #17,558 · 13 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #17,558
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH same

Nearest frequency peer: same (-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 « Sardaigne »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « Sardaigne » 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).

Sardaigne vs sardine
67% similar

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

Key facts for Sardaigne
PropertyValue
HeadwordSardaigne
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\saʁ.dɛɲ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#17,558
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Sardaigne »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Sardaignese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « same » (#17,557), « Satire » (#17,559), « said » (#17,556). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « Sardaigne » est au #17,558. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around Sardaigne (IPA \saʁ.dɛɲ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #17,558 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sardaigne, with forms such as "asrdaigne", "sadraigne", and "saradigne". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "sardine", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Sardaigne, spelled S-A-R-D-A-I-G-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Deuxième plus grande île de Méditerranée après la Sicile, baignée par la mer Tyrrhénienne (autrefois aussi appelée mer Sardonienne) à l’est et la Méditerranée occidentale à l’ouest.
  2. 2
    Région d’Italie, correspondant à cette île, où se trouve Cagliari.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Mon intendant de Sardaigne me l’a envoyé par orgueil, car ce cheval de race arabe est né dans mes macchis.
  2. L’Empire carthaginois, en Afrique du Nord, en Espagne du Sud, en Corse, en Sardaigne et en Sicile méridionale, était un État marchand qui tirait sa richesse des provinces sujettes.

This word in other languages

Sardinia(English)Cerdeña(Español)Sardinien(Deutsch)Sardenha(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asrdaigne
  • sadraigne
  • saradigne
  • sardagine
  • sardaigen
  • sardaiggne
  • sardaignne
  • sardainge
  • sarddaigne
  • sardiagne
  • sarrdaigne
  • sradaigne
  • ssardaigne

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

asrdaigne2sadraigne2saradigne2sardagine2sardaigen2sardaiggne1sardaignne1sardainge2
Edit distance from "Sardaigne"

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 "Sardaigne"?
"Sardaigne" is spelled S-A-R-D-A-I-G-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \saʁ.dɛɲ\.
What does "Sardaigne" mean?
As a proper noun, "Sardaigne" means: Deuxième plus grande île de Méditerranée après la Sicile, baignée par la mer Tyrrhénienne (autrefois aussi appelée mer Sardonienne) à l’est et la Méditerranée occidentale à l’ouest.
What words are commonly confused with "Sardaigne"?
"Sardaigne" is commonly confused with "sardine". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Sardaigne"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Sardaigne" is \saʁ.dɛɲ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Sardaigne" come from?
"Sardaigne" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

satirique#17,560sépulture#17,570remarquez#17,544racontant#17,536

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

révélant13 variantsrelâcher13 variantsterrifiant13 variantstourbillon13 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list