senteur

\sɑ̃.tœʁ\

/\sɑ̃.tœʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“senteur” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,726. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#44,726
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Odeur ; ce qui frappe l’odorat.

Corpus desk

Index FR-senteur · senteur · French

senteur · rank #44,726 · 10 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #44,726
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH semblants

Nearest frequency peer: semblants (-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 « senteur »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « senteur » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

senteur vs sentir
71% similar
senteur vs sentez
71% similar
senteur vs serveur
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for senteur
PropertyValue
Headwordsenteur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɑ̃.tœʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#44,726
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « senteur »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.senteurse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « semblants » (#44,725), « sentinel » (#44,727), « sellier » (#44,724). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « senteur » est au #44,726. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around senteur (IPA \sɑ̃.tœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,726 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for senteur, with forms such as "esnteur", "senetur", and "sennteur". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "sentir", "sentez", "serveur", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is senteur, spelled S-E-N-T-E-U-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Odeur ; ce qui frappe l’odorat.
  2. 2
    Parfum ; odeur agréable.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how senteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les odeurs forestières, senteurs adorées par les âmes friandes de poésie à qui plaisent les mousses les plus innocentes, les cryptogames les plus vénéneux, les terres mouillées, les saules, les baumes, le serpolet, les eaux vertes d’une mare, l’étoile arrondie des nénuphars jaunes ; toutes ces vigoureuses fécondations se livrent à vos narines en vous livr…
  2. Combien n'ai-je pas escaladé de ces escaliers délabrés, obscurs, empuantis de senteurs écœurantes et sur lesquels s'ouvraient de hideuses sentines, parfois même démunies d'une seule fenêtre !

This word in other languages

Duft(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • esnteur
  • senetur
  • sennteur
  • senteru
  • senteurr
  • sentteur
  • sentuer
  • setneur
  • sneteur
  • ssenteur

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of senteur - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

esnteur2senetur2sennteur1senteru2senteurr1sentteur1sentuer2setneur2
Edit distance from "senteur"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "senteur"?
"senteur" is spelled S-E-N-T-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \sɑ̃.tœʁ\.
What does "senteur" mean?
As a noun, "senteur" means: Odeur ; ce qui frappe l’odorat.
What words are commonly confused with "senteur"?
"senteur" is commonly confused with "sentir", "sentez", "serveur". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "senteur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "senteur" is \sɑ̃.tœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "senteur" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "senteur", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

sellier#44,724shabbat#44,731Sisyphe#44,739songeur#44,744

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

rêvons10 variantsréveilla10 variantssouciait10 variantsTalence10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list