sentiment

\sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\

/\sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“sentiment” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,680. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,680
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faculté que nous avons d’apprécier, de sentir directement certaines choses sans le secours du raisonnement, de l’observation ou de l’expérience.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sentiment · sentiment · French

sentiment · rank #1,680 · 14 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,680
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH savez

Nearest frequency peer: savez (-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 « sentiment »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « sentiment » 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).

sentiment vs sentiront
78% similar
sentiment vs sentiments
90% similar
sentiment vs sentimental
82% similar

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

Key facts for sentiment
PropertyValue
Headwordsentiment
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#1,680
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sentiment »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).sentimentse 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 « savez » (#1,679), « soin » (#1,681), « récemment » (#1,678). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sentiment » est au #1,680. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around sentiment (IPA \sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,680 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for sentiment, with forms such as "esntiment", "senitment", and "senntiment". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "sentiront", "sentiments", "sentimental", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is sentiment, spelled S-E-N-T-I-M-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Faculté que nous avons d’apprécier, de sentir directement certaines choses sans le secours du raisonnement, de l’observation ou de l’expérience.
  2. 2
    Quelqu’une des affections, des passions, des émotions ; et généralement de tout phénomène de la vie affective.
  3. 3
    Disposition à être facilement ému, touché ou attendri.
  4. 4
    Action ou faculté de sentir, de recevoir des impressions.
  5. 5
    Opinion qu’on a de quelque chose ; ce qu’on en pense ; ce qu’on en pressent.
  6. 6
    Traces et odeurs laissées par un gibier.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Tout ce désordre fantastique et grimaçant au milieu des ténèbres et de l'humidité froide qui tombe comme un suaire, laisse dans le cœur et dans les nerfs un long sentiment d'horreur.
  2. Nous aurions pu discuter à l'infini sans tomber d'accord sur la nécessité qu'évoquait l'inspecteur. C'était, en effet, plus au sentiment qu'à la raison qu'il appartenait, somme toute, de nous départager.

Synonyms

sensationintuitionémotiontransportsensibilitéintuitionopinion

This word in other languages

sentiment(English)sentimiento(Español)Empfindung(Deutsch)sensação(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • esntiment
  • senitment
  • senntiment
  • sentiemnt
  • sentimennt
  • sentimentt
  • sentimetn
  • sentimment
  • sentimnet
  • sentmient
  • senttiment
  • setniment
  • snetiment
  • ssentiment

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sentiment - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

esntiment2senitment2senntiment1sentiemnt2sentimennt1sentimentt1sentimetn2sentimment1
Edit distance from "sentiment"

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 "sentiment"?
"sentiment" is spelled S-E-N-T-I-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\.
What does "sentiment" mean?
As a noun, "sentiment" means: Faculté que nous avons d’apprécier, de sentir directement certaines choses sans le secours du raisonnement, de l’observation ou de l’expérience.
What words are commonly confused with "sentiment"?
"sentiment" is commonly confused with "sentiront", "sentiments", "sentimental". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sentiment"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sentiment" is \sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sentiment" come from?
"sentiment" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

récemment#1,678sélection#1,684reprendre#1,674étrangers#1,691

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

candidats14 variantsfrançaises14 variantsdocuments14 variantspermettant14 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list