Saturne

\sa.tyʁn\

/\sa.tyʁn\/ name

The verdict

“Saturne” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,266. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#17,266
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
12
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dieu de la mythologie romaine, père de Jupiter, correspondant à Cronos chez les Grecs.

Corpus desk

Index FR-saturne · Saturne · French

Saturne · rank #17,266 · 10 variants · 12 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #17,266
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH saigner

Nearest frequency peer: saigner (-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 « Saturne »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « Saturne » 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).

Saturne vs suture
57% similar
Saturne vs satyre
57% similar
Saturne vs stature
57% similar

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

Key facts for Saturne
PropertyValue
HeadwordSaturne
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\sa.tyʁn\
Letters7
Frequency rank#17,266
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Saturne »

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « saigner » (#17,265), « scan » (#17,267), « réservations » (#17,264). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « Saturne » est au #17,266. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around Saturne (IPA \sa.tyʁn\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #17,266 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Dieu de la mythologie romaine, père de Jupiter, correspondant à Cronos chez les Grecs.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Saturne, with forms such as "asturne", "satrune", and "satturne". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "suture", "satyre", "stature", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Saturne, spelled S-A-T-U-R-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dieu de la mythologie romaine, père de Jupiter, correspondant à Cronos chez les Grecs.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Lorenzo. – Je suis plus vieux que le bisaïeul de Saturne ; je vous en prie, venez faire un tour de promenade.
  2. Nous trouvons donc chez Jupiter Hammon les divers éléments (égyptiens, libyques et puniques) qui caractérisent la formation de Saturne, à cette différence près que ces éléments ont été, dans le premier cas, captés par le dieu grec Zeus et son homologue latin Jupiter, tandis que, dans le second, ils l’ont été par le dieu italique Saturne.

Synonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asturne
  • satrune
  • satturne
  • satunre
  • saturen
  • saturnne
  • saturrne
  • sautrne
  • ssaturne
  • staurne

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

asturne2satrune2satturne1satunre2saturen2saturnne1saturrne1sautrne2
Edit distance from "Saturne"

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 "Saturne"?
"Saturne" is spelled S-A-T-U-R-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.tyʁn\.
What does "Saturne" mean?
As a proper noun, "Saturne" means: Dieu de la mythologie romaine, père de Jupiter, correspondant à Cronos chez les Grecs.
What words are commonly confused with "Saturne"?
"Saturne" is commonly confused with "suture", "satyre", "stature". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Saturne"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Saturne" is \sa.tyʁn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Saturne" come from?
"Saturne" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list