sine
\ˈsaɪn\
The verdict
“sine” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,282) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,282
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sinus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sine · sine · French
sine · rank #20,282 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,282
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Soissons
Nearest frequency peer: Soissons (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « sine »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- sauraient
sauraient
79,722 corpus weight
- semis
semis
79,721 corpus weight
- sine
sine
79,719 corpus weight
- Soissons
Soissons
79,718 corpus weight
- stoppé
stoppé
79,717 corpus weight
- styliste
styliste
79,716 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « sine » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | sine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈsaɪn\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #20,282 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « sine »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sine is neighbouring look-alikes ("sn", "son", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈsaɪn\. Frequency #20,282 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Sinus.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for sine, with forms such as "isne", "sinne", and "snie". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sn", "son", "six", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is sine, spelled S-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Sinus.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- isne
- sinne
- snie
- ssine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sine - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).