satyre
\sa.tiʁ\
The verdict
“satyre” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,597. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,597
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de demi-dieu qui, selon la fable, habitait les bois et qui avait des jambes, des pieds, des oreilles et une queue de cheval, parfois représenté avec des membres de bouc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-satyre · satyre · French
satyre · rank #47,597 · 9 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,597
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH saoudiennes
Nearest frequency peer: saoudiennes (-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 « satyre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sanskrit
sanskrit
52,406 corpus weight
- saoudiennes
saoudiennes
52,405 corpus weight
- satyre
satyre
52,404 corpus weight
- scellées
scellées
52,403 corpus weight
- schématique
schématique
52,402 corpus weight
- scieries
scieries
52,401 corpus weight
What this shows « satyre » 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 | satyre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.tiʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #47,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « satyre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around satyre (IPA \sa.tiʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,597 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for satyre, with forms such as "astyre", "satrye", and "sattyre". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "style", "store", "suture", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is satyre, spelled S-A-T-Y-R-E.
Definition
- 1Sorte de demi-dieu qui, selon la fable, habitait les bois et qui avait des jambes, des pieds, des oreilles et une queue de cheval, parfois représenté avec des membres de bouc.
- 2Homme lubrique.
- 3Synonyme de mégère (papillon).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how satyre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On notera, enfin, que la plante connue des Anciens sous le nom d’Aphrodes porte à présent le nom de Silène (Silène inflata), image du satyre âgé, ventru mais plein de sagesse…
F° 67r° : un dessin formant scène — satyre fustigeant une satyresse, devant une statue-terme de Priape. Copie d’un détail d’une gravure de M. Raimondi ([…]) d’après un bas-relief antique à Rome.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- astyre
- satrye
- sattyre
- satyer
- satyrre
- satyyre
- saytre
- ssatyre
- stayre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of satyre - 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).