saturésvsSaturneWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#29,140
“saturés” frequency rank
#17,266
“Saturne” frequency rank
46406
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Where the eye mixes saturés and Saturne

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. saturés (CVCVCVC) and Saturne (CVCVCCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

7 ch
saturés
7 ch
Saturne

Why the eye confuses saturés with Saturne

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: saturés is \sa.ty.ʁe\ while Saturne is \sa.tyʁn\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs name), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46406, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

saturés is recorded at frequency rank #29,140, 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 46406, this pair ranks #195,211 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of saturés vs Saturne

Shared letters: arstu. Private to "saturés": é. Private to "Saturne": en.

"saturés" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC  ·  "Saturne" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "saturés" and "Saturne" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "saturés" is an adjective and "Saturne" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "saturés" or "Saturne" show up more?
"Saturne" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #17,266 in our French list, against #29,140 for "saturés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "saturés" and "Saturne" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "saturés" 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 #195,211 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "saturés" and "Saturne" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "saturés vs satyre". 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 #195,211 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