Sarthe
\saʁt\
The verdict
“Sarthe” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,499. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,499
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Département français de la région administrative des Pays de la Loire. Ce département porte le numéro 72.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sarthe · Sarthe · French
Sarthe · rank #15,499 · 9 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,499
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sanglier
Nearest frequency peer: sanglier (-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 « Sarthe »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- running
running
84,505 corpus weight
- réagissent
réagissent
84,504 corpus weight
- sanglier
sanglier
84,503 corpus weight
- Sarthe
Sarthe
84,502 corpus weight
- saucisse
saucisse
84,501 corpus weight
- saurez
saurez
84,500 corpus weight
What this shows « Sarthe » 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 | Sarthe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \saʁt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Sarthe »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Sarthe (IPA \saʁt\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #15,499 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sarthe, with forms such as "asrthe", "sarhte", and "sarrthe". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "sorte", "sauté", "sortie", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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. The correct French form is Sarthe, spelled S-A-R-T-H-E.
Definition
- 1Département français de la région administrative des Pays de la Loire. Ce département porte le numéro 72.
- 2Rivière française qui prend sa source à Soligny-la-Trappe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sarthe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Essentiellement agricole, mais peu accessible aux innovations, le département de la Sarthe n’a pour toute richesse que des produits aujourd’hui dépréciés : des céréales , quelques bestiaux.
Mon Dieu ! ce n’était peut-être pas un saint. Qui donc est saint dans le département de la Sarthe ?
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asrthe
- sarhte
- sarrthe
- sarteh
- sarthhe
- sartthe
- satrhe
- srathe
- ssarthe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sarthe - 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.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Sarthe", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).