sentir
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,756
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sentir is aFrenchverb. It means: Recevoir quelque impression par le moyen des sens, éprouver en soi quelque chose d’agréable ou de pénible. Pronounced \sɑ̃.tiʁ\. It ranks #1,756 in French word frequency. Often confused with Sétif and sévir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sentir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.tiʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,756 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sentir is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɑ̃.tiʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,756 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 16 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for sentir, with forms such as "esntir", "senitr", and "senntir". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Sétif", "sévir", "sortir", 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 sentir, spelled S-E-N-T-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Recevoir quelque impression par le moyen des sens, éprouver en soi quelque chose d’agréable ou de pénible.
- 2Action qui résulte de l’utilisation de son odorat.
- 3Action qui résulte de l’utilisation du toucher.
- 4Avoir une impression, ressentir.
- 5Être ému, touché, affecté de quelque chose d’extérieur.
- 6Avoir un sentiment, aimer, être disposé à aimer.
- 7Discerner, connaître directement, par intuition.
- 8Flairer.
- 9Avec la négation, avoir de la répugnance, de l’aversion.
- 10Exhaler, répandre une certaine odeur.
- 11S’emploie absolument dans cette acception avec les mots bon, mauvais, fort, etc.
- 12Exhaler une mauvaise odeur, puer.
- 13Avoir du goût, de la saveur, en parlant d’un aliment ou d’une boisson.
- 14Avoir le caractère, les manières, l’air, l’apparence de.
- 15à propos du climat.
- 16Connaître, percevoir en quel état, en quelle disposition on est.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esntir,senitr,senntir,sentirr,sentri,senttir,setnir,snetir,ssentir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sentir
Misspelling Variants of "sentir"
Frequency rank: #1,756 in French
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