Sinaï
\si.naj\
The verdict
“Sinaï” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,027. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,027
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Péninsule à la forme triangulaire et située entre la Méditerranée (au nord) et la mer Rouge (au sud).
Corpus desk
Index FR-sinai · Sinaï · French
Sinaï · rank #23,027 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,027
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH silicium
Nearest frequency peer: silicium (-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 « Sinaï »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sharp
sharp
76,977 corpus weight
- shooting
shooting
76,976 corpus weight
- silicium
silicium
76,975 corpus weight
- Sinaï
Sinaï
76,974 corpus weight
- sionisme
sionisme
76,972 corpus weight
- sonorités
sonorités
76,971 corpus weight
What this shows « Sinaï » 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 | Sinaï |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \si.naj\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #23,027 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Sinaï »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Sinaï (IPA \si.naj\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #23,027 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Péninsule à la forme triangulaire et située entre la Méditerranée (au nord) et la mer Rouge (au sud).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sinaï, with forms such as "isnaï", "sianï", and "sinnaï". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sine", "sing", "snap", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Sinaï, spelled S-I-N-A-Ï.
Definition
- 1Péninsule à la forme triangulaire et située entre la Méditerranée (au nord) et la mer Rouge (au sud).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sinaï appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- isnaï
- sianï
- sinnaï
- sinïa
- sniaï
- ssinaï
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sinaï - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).