Sénégal
\se.ne.ɡal\
The verdict
“Sénégal” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,997. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,997
- frequency rank, French
- 394,209
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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.
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 | Sénégal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \se.ne.ɡal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,997 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Sénégal” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Sénégal (IPA \se.ne.ɡal\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #4,997 among 394,209 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sénégal, with forms such as "senegal", "snéégal", and "ssénégal". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "sénéchal", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Sénégal, spelled S-É-N-É-G-A-L.
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.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: senegal,snéégal,ssénégal,séngéal,sénnégal,sénéagl,sénégall,sénéggal,sénégla,sééngal,ésnégal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sénégal - 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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Using “Sénégal”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-É-N-É-G-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \se.ne.ɡal\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “sénéchal” - see the side-by-side comparison. Sénégal vs sénéchal
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.