sentaient
\sɑ̃.tɛ\
The verdict
“sentaient” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,966. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,966
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de sentir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sentaient · sentaient · French
sentaient · rank #27,966 · 13 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,966
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH secousses
Nearest frequency peer: secousses (-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 « sentaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- schisme
schisme
72,038 corpus weight
- secouru
secouru
72,037 corpus weight
- secousses
secousses
72,036 corpus weight
- sentaient
sentaient
72,035 corpus weight
- sia
sia
72,034 corpus weight
- sifflets
sifflets
72,033 corpus weight
What this shows « sentaient » 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 | sentaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #27,966 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sentaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around sentaient (IPA \sɑ̃.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #27,966 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de sentir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for sentaient, with forms such as "esntaient", "senatient", and "senntaient". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "sentent", "sentait", "sentant", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is sentaient, spelled S-E-N-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de sentir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sentaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Peu à peu le maître et le bailli sentaient monter en eux un malaise, leurs phrases se mitaient de silences, bientôt ils se turent en s’entre-regardant.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esntaient
- senatient
- senntaient
- sentaeint
- sentaiennt
- sentaientt
- sentaietn
- sentainet
- sentiaent
- senttaient
- setnaient
- snetaient
- ssentaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sentaient - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).