sauvignon
"sauvignon" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sauvignon” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #34,272. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,272
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of several grape varieties and associated wines originally from France
Corpus desk
Index EN-sauvignon · sauvignon · English
sauvignon · rank #34,272 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,272
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Samoan
Nearest frequency peer: Samoan (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “sauvignon”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Sadiq
Sadiq
65,732 corpus weight
- Sagittarius
Sagittarius
65,731 corpus weight
- Samoan
Samoan
65,730 corpus weight
- sauvignon
sauvignon
65,729 corpus weight
- savagery
savagery
65,728 corpus weight
- scorned
scorned
65,726 corpus weight
What this shows “sauvignon” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sauvignon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #34,272 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “sauvignon”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around sauvignon, anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,272 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Any of several grape varieties and associated wines originally from France".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for sauvignon, with forms such as "asuvignon", "sauivgnon", and "sauvginon". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French sauvignon. The correct English form is sauvignon, spelled S-A-U-V-I-G-N-O-N.
Definition
- 1Any of several grape varieties and associated wines originally from France
Etymology
From French sauvignon.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asuvignon
- sauivgnon
- sauvginon
- sauviggnon
- sauvignno
- sauvignnon
- sauvignonn
- sauvigonn
- sauvingon
- sauvvignon
- savuignon
- ssauvignon
- suavignon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sauvignon - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sauvignon", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).