sakévsstadeTell them apart

Which to use

“saké” and “stade” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#43,653
“saké” frequency rank
#1,191
“stade” frequency rank
44844
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature saké stade
Definition Vin de riz japonais, produit par fermentation comme la bière, titrant de 14° à 17°. Mesure de longueur valant à peu près 180 mètres.

Where the eye mixes saké and stade

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.

4 ch
saké
5 ch
stade

Visual trap between saké and stade

A purely visual mix-up. saké (\sa.ke\) and stade (\stad\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44844, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

saké is recorded at frequency rank #43,653, classified as anoun, pronounced \sa.ke\. stade is at rank #1,191, tagged as anoun, pronounced \stad\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 44844, this pair ranks #207,385 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of saké vs stade

Shared letters: as. Private to "saké": . Private to "stade": det.

"saké" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "stade" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • stadesatde · sstade · stadde · staed · stdae · sttade · tsade

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "saké" for "stade" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\sa.ke\ versus \stad\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "saké" vs "stade" - which ranks higher?
"stade" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,191 in our French list, against #43,653 for "saké". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "saké" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "stade" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #207,385 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "saké" and "stade" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "saké vs stase". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #207,385 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list