sapor

noun

"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

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Key facts for sapor
PropertyValue
Headwordsapor
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “sapor” in English

saporfalls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    A type of taste (sweetness, sourness etc.); loosely, taste, flavor.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how sapor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sapor"?
"sapor" is spelled S-A-P-O-R.
What does "sapor" mean?
As a noun, "sapor" means: A type of taste (sweetness, sourness etc.); loosely, taste, flavor.
What is the origin of the word "sapor"?
From Middle English sapour, sapoure, from Latin sapor. Doublet of savour /savor. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list