sapor
"sapor" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sapor” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A type of taste (sweetness, sourness etc.); loosely, taste, flavor.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sapor · sapor · English
sapor · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sapor |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sapor” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sapor is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A type of taste (sweetness, sourness etc.); loosely, taste, flavor.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sapor in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English sapour, sapoure, from Latin sapor. Doublet of savour /savor. The correct English form is sapor, spelled S-A-P-O-R.
Definition
- 1A type of taste (sweetness, sourness etc.); loosely, taste, flavor.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sapor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But, though the ſavour bee ſo baſe, the ſapor is ſo excellent, that no meat, no ſauce, no veſſell pleaſes the Guzurats pallat, ſave what reliſhes of it.
Etymology
From Middle English sapour, sapoure, from Latin sapor. Doublet of savour /savor.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.