sentiment
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,680
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
sentiment is aFrenchnoun. It means: Faculté que nous avons d’apprécier, de sentir directement certaines choses sans le secours du raisonnement, de l’observation ou de l’expérience. Pronounced \sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\. It ranks #1,680 in French word frequency. Often confused with sentiront and sentiments.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sentiment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,680 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sentiment is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,680 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for sentiment, with forms such as "esntiment", "senitment", and "senntiment". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "sentiront", "sentiments", "sentimental", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is sentiment, spelled S-E-N-T-I-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Faculté que nous avons d’apprécier, de sentir directement certaines choses sans le secours du raisonnement, de l’observation ou de l’expérience.
- 2Quelqu’une des affections, des passions, des émotions ; et généralement de tout phénomène de la vie affective.
- 3Disposition à être facilement ému, touché ou attendri.
- 4Action ou faculté de sentir, de recevoir des impressions.
- 5Opinion qu’on a de quelque chose ; ce qu’on en pense ; ce qu’on en pressent.
- 6Traces et odeurs laissées par un gibier.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esntiment,senitment,senntiment,sentiemnt,sentimennt,sentimentt,sentimetn,sentimment,sentimnet,sentmient,senttiment,setniment,snetiment,ssentiment
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sentiment
Misspelling Variants of "sentiment"
Frequency rank: #1,680 in French
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