sentait
\sɑ̃.tɛ\
The verdict
“sentait” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,374. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,374
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de sentir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sentait · sentait · French
sentait · rank #7,374 · 10 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,374
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH résidents
Nearest frequency peer: résidents (-2 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 « sentait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- réalisations
réalisations
92,631 corpus weight
- réchauffeme…
réchauffement
92,630 corpus weight
- résidents
résidents
92,629 corpus weight
- sentait
sentait
92,627 corpus weight
- signaux
signaux
92,625 corpus weight
- significati…
significative
92,624 corpus weight
What this shows « sentait » 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 | sentait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,374 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sentait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around sentait (IPA \sɑ̃.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,374 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de sentir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sentait, with forms such as "esntait", "senatit", and "senntait". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "senti", "serait", "sentir", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sentait, spelled S-E-N-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de sentir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sentait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est ce que sentait Cavour, avec son tact de grand homme d’État; et pour qu’on ne pût lui reprocher de turiniser et de cavouriser l’Italie, il désirait prendre pour collaborateurs les hommes les plus éminens de chaque région.
Comme il se sentait un besoin incoercible de réfléchir, mais de réfléchir génialement, comme disait ce modeste, il commanda un martini dry.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esntait
- senatit
- senntait
- sentaitt
- sentati
- sentiat
- senttait
- setnait
- snetait
- ssentait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sentait - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).