saturéesvsSaturneConfusable pair

Quick tell: saturées is a adjective, Saturne is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“saturées” is an adjective and “Saturne” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#37,061
“saturées” frequency rank
#17,266
“Saturne” frequency rank
54327
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature saturées Saturne
Definition Féminin pluriel de saturé. Dieu de la mythologie romaine, père de Jupiter, correspondant à Cronos chez les Grecs.

Where the eye mixes saturées and Saturne

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. saturées runs 8 letters (CVCVCVVC) against Saturne's 7 (CVCVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
saturées
7 ch
Saturne

Look-alike desk: saturées vs Saturne

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: saturées is \sa.ty.ʁe\ while Saturne is \sa.tyʁn\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs name), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54327, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

saturées is recorded at frequency rank #37,061, classified as anadj, pronounced \sa.ty.ʁe\. Saturne is at rank #17,266, tagged as aname, pronounced \sa.tyʁn\.

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 54327, this pair ranks #134,764 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of saturées vs Saturne

Shared letters: aerstu. Private to "saturées": é. Private to "Saturne": n.

"saturées" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC  ·  "Saturne" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Saturne ← asturne · satrune · satturne · satunre · saturen · saturnne · saturrne · sautrne

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "saturées" for "Saturne" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "saturées" is an adjective and "Saturne" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "saturées" or "Saturne"?
"Saturne" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #17,266 in our French list, against #37,061 for "saturées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "saturées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Saturne" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #134,764 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "saturées" and "Saturne" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "saturées vs sutures". 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 #134,764 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