Sartre
\saʁtʁ\
The verdict
“Sartre” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,732. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,732
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille équivalent, pour le sens, à l’anglais Taylor, à l’allemand Schneider.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sartre · Sartre · French
Sartre · rank #16,732 · 9 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,732
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sanguins
Nearest frequency peer: sanguins (-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 « Sartre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Roumaine
Roumaine
83,273 corpus weight
- saines
saines
83,272 corpus weight
- salades
salades
83,271 corpus weight
- sanguins
sanguins
83,270 corpus weight
- Sartre
Sartre
83,269 corpus weight
- selfie
selfie
83,265 corpus weight
What this shows « Sartre » 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 | Sartre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \saʁtʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,732 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Sartre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Sartre (IPA \saʁtʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #16,732 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 Sartre, with forms such as "asrtre", "sarrte", and "sarrtre". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "sorte", "serré", "sauté", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Sartre, spelled S-A-R-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille équivalent, pour le sens, à l’anglais Taylor, à l’allemand Schneider.
- 2Jean-Paul Sartre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sartre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À la surprise générale, Jean-Paul Sartre avait échoué à l’écrit.
Toujours est-il que si Khrouchtchev avait eu Sartre comme conseiller technique, il n'aurait pas dévoilé les crimes de Staline.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asrtre
- sarrte
- sarrtre
- sarter
- sartrre
- sarttre
- satrre
- sratre
- ssartre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sartre - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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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).