sentier

\sɑ̃.tje\

/\sɑ̃.tje\/ noun

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The verdict

“sentier” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,037. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#8,037
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
15
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chemin étroit au travers des champs, des bois, etc.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sentier · sentier · French

sentier · rank #8,037 · 10 variants · 15 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,037
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH révolutionnai…

Nearest frequency peer: révolutionnaires (-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 « sentier »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « sentier » 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).

sentier vs sentir
86% similar
sentier vs sentis
71% similar
sentier vs sentira
71% similar

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

Key facts for sentier
PropertyValue
Headwordsentier
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɑ̃.tje\
Letters7
Frequency rank#8,037
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sentier »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).sentierse 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 « révolutionnaires » (#8,036), « servait » (#8,038), « répondant » (#8,035). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sentier » est au #8,037. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around sentier (IPA \sɑ̃.tje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,037 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sentier, with forms such as "esntier", "seniter", and "senntier". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "sentir", "sentis", "sentira", 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sentier, spelled S-E-N-T-I-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Chemin étroit au travers des champs, des bois, etc.
  2. 2
    Cheminement tendant vers un but.
  3. 3
    Domaine de la vie.
  4. 4
    Passage d’engins d’exploitation, cloisonnement.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Une fois les voitures loin derrière, les deux chiennes d’Aurélie Thorel gambadent libres sur les sentiers de La Chapelle-des-Pots, plongeant même dans les cours d’eau.
  2. Ce jour-là, précisément, Étienne Lecourt, par le sentier abrupt, hérissé de rochers et bordé de déclivités dangereuses, qui serpente au flanc de la montagne, avait grimpé jusqu’à Cornabeuf.

This word in other languages

path(English)senda(Español)Fußweg(Deutsch)atalho(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • esntier
  • seniter
  • senntier
  • senteir
  • sentierr
  • sentire
  • senttier
  • setnier
  • snetier
  • ssentier

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

esntier2seniter2senntier1senteir2sentierr1sentire2senttier1setnier2
Edit distance from "sentier"

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 "sentier"?
"sentier" is spelled S-E-N-T-I-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \sɑ̃.tje\.
What does "sentier" mean?
As a noun, "sentier" means: Chemin étroit au travers des champs, des bois, etc.
What words are commonly confused with "sentier"?
"sentier" is commonly confused with "sentir", "sentis", "sentira". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sentier"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sentier" is \sɑ̃.tje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sentier" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

servait#8,038sortait#8,040Stanley#8,041revenue#8,030

Similar misspelling depth

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

rendait10 variantsCameron10 variantsmeeting10 variantscollines10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list