saxon
\sak.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“saxon” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,792. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,792
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux Saxons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-saxon · saxon · French
saxon · rank #14,792 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,792
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH révolutions
Nearest frequency peer: révolutions (-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 « saxon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- réponde
réponde
85,212 corpus weight
- résout
résout
85,211 corpus weight
- révolutions
révolutions
85,210 corpus weight
- saxon
saxon
85,209 corpus weight
- schiste
schiste
85,208 corpus weight
- sentimentale
sentimentale
85,207 corpus weight
What this shows « saxon » 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 | saxon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sak.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,792 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « saxon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around saxon (IPA \sak.sɔ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,792 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for saxon, with forms such as "asxon", "saoxn", and "saxno". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "son", "Sion", "soon", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is saxon, spelled S-A-X-O-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux Saxons.
- 2Relatif à la Saxe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how saxon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De même au fond d’un cloître écarté, sous le toit ruiné d’un Franklin saxon, la langue du pays retentissait encore dans quelques chants et dans quelques chroniques.
Lorsque je fis connaissance de celle qui allait devenir ma femme, elle ne comptait pas encore dix-huit printemps. J’en accusais, pour ma part, presque le double, et ma situation de maître-assistant à la faculté (chargé d’un cours hebdomadaire de poésie anglaise, et de quelques travaux pratiques de philologie saxonne), tout en me nimbant d’une aura particu…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asxon
- saoxn
- saxno
- saxonn
- saxxon
- ssaxon
- sxaon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of saxon - 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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