sax
\saks\
The verdict
“sax” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,660) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,660
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Saxophone.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sax · sax · French
sax · rank #43,660 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,660
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH saumure
Nearest frequency peer: saumure (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « sax »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Sankara
Sankara
56,345 corpus weight
- Saoud
Saoud
56,344 corpus weight
- saumure
saumure
56,342 corpus weight
- sax
sax
56,341 corpus weight
- scale
scale
56,340 corpus weight
- sentiras
sentiras
56,338 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « sax » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | sax |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \saks\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #43,660 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « sax »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sax is neighbouring look-alikes ("se", "si", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \saks\. Frequency #43,660 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Saxophone.".
Zero misspellings are on record for sax in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "se", "si", "st", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sax, spelled S-A-X.
Definition
- 1Saxophone.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sax appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les deux héros du bop : la trompette et le sax.
C’était magnifique puisqu’on avait les trois trombones, le sax ténor, l’accordéon. Partout, de la virtuosité, de la vélocité.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).