sarde

\saʁd\

/\saʁd\/ adj

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The verdict

“sarde” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,035. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#42,035
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la Sardaigne, ses habitants, sa culture.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sarde · sarde · French

sarde · rank #42,035 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #42,035
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sapeur

Nearest frequency peer: sapeur (-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 « sarde »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « sarde » 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).

sarde vs sure
60% similar
sarde vs sire
60% similar
sarde vs side
60% similar

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

Key facts for sarde
PropertyValue
Headwordsarde
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\saʁd\
Letters5
Frequency rank#42,035
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sarde »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).sardese place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sapeur » (#42,034), « sarin » (#42,036), « Santerre » (#42,033). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sarde » est au #42,035. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around sarde (IPA \saʁd\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #42,035 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for sarde, with forms such as "asrde", "sadre", and "sardde". 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, "sure", "sire", "side", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sarde, spelled S-A-R-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relatif à la Sardaigne, ses habitants, sa culture.
  2. 2
    Relatif au sarde, la langue de Sardaigne.
  3. 3
    Relatif au Royaume de Sardaigne.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Un village sarde.
  2. Grâce à certaines herbes cueillies à certaines époques et vendues aux contrebandiers par de vieilles femmes sardes, la blessure se referma bien vite.

This word in other languages

Sardinian(English)sardo(Español)sardisch(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asrde
  • sadre
  • sardde
  • sared
  • sarrde
  • srade
  • ssarde

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sarde - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

asrde2sadre2sardde1sared2sarrde1srade2ssarde1
Edit distance from "sarde"

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 "sarde"?
"sarde" is spelled S-A-R-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \saʁd\.
What does "sarde" mean?
As an adjective, "sarde" means: Relatif à la Sardaigne, ses habitants, sa culture.
What words are commonly confused with "sarde"?
"sarde" is commonly confused with "sure", "sire", "side". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sarde"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sarde" is \saʁd\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sarde" come from?
"sarde" 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 "sarde", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

sarin#42,036shock#42,046slash#42,051solis#42,054

Similar misspelling depth

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

Ritter7 variantsRecep7 variantsrapper7 variantsradier7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list