Sénégal
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,997
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
Sénégal is aFrenchname. It means: Pays d’Afrique, bordé par l’océan Atlantique à l’ouest, la Mauritanie au nord-est, le Mali à l’est, la Guinée au sud-est et la Guinée-Bissau au sud. Sa capitale est Dakar. Pronounced \se.ne.ɡal\. It ranks #4,997 in French word frequency. Often confused with sénéchal.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sénégal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | \se.ne.ɡal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,997 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Sénégal is 7 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \se.ne.ɡal\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,997 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sénégal, with forms such as "senegal", "snéégal", and "ssénégal". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "sénéchal", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Sénégal, spelled S-É-N-É-G-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pays d’Afrique, bordé par l’océan Atlantique à l’ouest, la Mauritanie au nord-est, le Mali à l’est, la Guinée au sud-est et la Guinée-Bissau au sud. Sa capitale est Dakar.
- 2Ancienne colonie française d’Afrique.
- 3Fleuve d’Afrique, qui sert de frontière entre la Mauritanie et le Sénégal.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: senegal,snéégal,ssénégal,séngéal,sénnégal,sénéagl,sénégall,sénéggal,sénégla,sééngal,ésnégal
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Misspelling Variants of "Sénégal"
Frequency rank: #4,997 in French
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