sentinel
\sɑ̃.ti.nɛl\
The verdict
“sentinel” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,727. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,727
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sentinelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sentinel · sentinel · French
sentinel · rank #44,727 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,727
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH senteur
Nearest frequency peer: senteur (-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 « sentinel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sellier
sellier
55,277 corpus weight
- semblants
semblants
55,276 corpus weight
- senteur
senteur
55,275 corpus weight
- sentinel
sentinel
55,274 corpus weight
- sergents
sergents
55,273 corpus weight
- servitudes
servitudes
55,272 corpus weight
What this shows « sentinel » 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 | sentinel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.ti.nɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #44,727 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sentinel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around sentinel (IPA \sɑ̃.ti.nɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,727 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sentinelle.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for sentinel, with forms such as "esntinel", "senitnel", and "senntinel". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "sentirez", "sentinelle", "sentinelles", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sentinel, spelled S-E-N-T-I-N-E-L.
Definition
- 1Sentinelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sentinel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il me conduisit dans la chambre du Capitaine , & mit un sentinel à la porte pour que personne n’y entrât.
- en 16**, la même chose qui t’est arrivé, m’arriva. Je ne fus pas obligé de monter sur les toits. Après que le sentinel m’eut renvoyé, je me mis à quatre, et j’allai dans l’ombre jusqu’à la Grève, sans être aperçu.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esntinel
- senitnel
- senntinel
- sentienl
- sentinell
- sentinle
- sentinnel
- sentniel
- senttinel
- setninel
- snetinel
- ssentinel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sentinel - 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 "sentinel", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).