sente
\sɑ̃t\
The verdict
“sente” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,474. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,474
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit sentier ou petite voie, souvent non goudronnée, et passant au travers des bois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sente · sente · French
sente · rank #13,474 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,474
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH satisfaite
Nearest frequency peer: satisfaite (-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 « sente »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Sacha
Sacha
86,530 corpus weight
- Samantha
Samantha
86,529 corpus weight
- satisfaite
satisfaite
86,528 corpus weight
- sente
sente
86,527 corpus weight
- SG
SG
86,526 corpus weight
- SM
SM
86,525 corpus weight
What this shows « sente » 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 | sente |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,474 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sente »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around sente (IPA \sɑ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,474 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Petit sentier ou petite voie, souvent non goudronnée, et passant au travers des bois.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for sente, with forms such as "esnte", "senet", and "sennte". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "set", "ste", "sont", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is sente, spelled S-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Petit sentier ou petite voie, souvent non goudronnée, et passant au travers des bois.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sente appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le soleil est déjà haut dans le ciel, l’air commence de s’embraser. Pour rentrer chez moi, je cherche les couverts, les petites routes touffues, les sentes enverdurées.
Le vieux garde s’épongeait le front et Marthe respirait à pleins poumons, assise sur une borne rongée de terre et de mousse, comme il s’en trouve à l’entrée de chaque sente.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esnte
- senet
- sennte
- sentte
- setne
- snete
- ssente
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sente - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).