sentimental
\sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃.tal\
The verdict
“sentimental” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,594. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,594
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Où il y a du sentiment ; qui annonce du sentiment ; qui tient du sentiment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sentimental · sentimental · French
sentimental · rank #18,594 · 17 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,594
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sceptiques
Nearest frequency peer: sceptiques (-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 « sentimental »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Samir
Samir
81,410 corpus weight
- sanglant
sanglant
81,409 corpus weight
- sceptiques
sceptiques
81,408 corpus weight
- sentimental
sentimental
81,407 corpus weight
- Singh
Singh
81,406 corpus weight
- singularité
singularité
81,405 corpus weight
What this shows « sentimental » 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 | sentimental |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃.tal\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #18,594 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sentimental »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around sentimental (IPA \sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃.tal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,594 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for sentimental, with forms such as "esntimental", "senitmental", and "senntimental". 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, "sentiments", "sentimentale", "sentimentaux", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sentimental, spelled S-E-N-T-I-M-E-N-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Où il y a du sentiment ; qui annonce du sentiment ; qui tient du sentiment.
- 2Qualifie les personnes qui affectent une grande sensibilité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sentimental appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Tenez, voilà une chanson que j'ai écrite il y a trois ans. Un peu de romance sentimentale, ça ne saurait faire de mal à personne. Je ne compose que quand je suis saoul.
L’internationalisme sentimental d’avant 1914 n'a pas résisté au choc des nations. Dans tous les pays en guerre, socialistes et syndicalistes, dans leur grande majorité, ont participé à la défense nationale.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esntimental
- senitmental
- senntimental
- sentiemntal
- sentimenatl
- sentimenntal
- sentimentall
- sentimentla
- sentimenttal
- sentimetnal
- sentimmental
- sentimnetal
- sentmiental
- senttimental
- setnimental
- snetimental
- ssentimental
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sentimental - 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.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sentimental", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).