saunier
\so.nje\
The verdict
“saunier” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,152. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,152
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne la récolte du sel en mer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-saunier · saunier · French
saunier · rank #36,152 · 9 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,152
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sauveurs
Nearest frequency peer: sauveurs (+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 « saunier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Samoa
Samoa
63,852 corpus weight
- Santini
Santini
63,851 corpus weight
- saunier
saunier
63,849 corpus weight
- sauveurs
sauveurs
63,848 corpus weight
- sei
sei
63,847 corpus weight
- sembla
sembla
63,846 corpus weight
What this shows « saunier » 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 | saunier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \so.nje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,152 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « saunier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around saunier (IPA \so.nje\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #36,152 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui concerne la récolte du sel en mer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for saunier, with forms such as "asunier", "sanuier", and "sauiner". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "sauver", "sauter", "soucier", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is saunier, spelled S-A-U-N-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne la récolte du sel en mer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how saunier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Modestes cayennes en bordure d’un chenal ou villages sauniers autour d’un ruisson, l’habitat dispersé correspondait aux villages de gens de mer.
Cela donne l'occasion à la Bretagne de montrer qu'elle n'a pas oublié ses traditions saunières multiséculaires qui acquièrent aux temps carolingiens une nouvelle jeunesse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asunier
- sanuier
- sauiner
- sauneir
- saunierr
- saunire
- saunnier
- ssaunier
- suanier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of saunier - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "saunier", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).