sav
"sav" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sav” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,009) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,009
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A saveloy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sav · sav · English
sav · rank #40,009 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,009
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sanguine
Nearest frequency peer: sanguine (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “sav”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- sacs
sacs
59,996 corpus weight
- sanguine
sanguine
59,993 corpus weight
- sav
sav
59,992 corpus weight
- saxophonist
saxophonist
59,991 corpus weight
- scone
scone
59,990 corpus weight
- seeping
seeping
59,988 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “sav” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sav |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #40,009 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “sav”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sav is neighbouring look-alikes ("so", "se", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #40,009 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Gloss: "A saveloy.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sav in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "so", "se", "SC", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Clipping of saveloy. The correct English form is sav, spelled S-A-V.
Definition
- 1A saveloy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sav appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1982, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, NZ, Predicament, The Dunmore Press, page 68, “Well, I don′t know what you′ll think. I′m only saying this to show what you′ve all done for me, but last Christmas dinner I had cold savs.” There was silence and then Mervyn added with a break in his voice, “Saveloys. […] ”
‘Your turn today, Lil,’ he said. ‘Fish and chips for me. No, wait, I′ll have savs, faggots and pease pudding.’
Etymology
Clipping of saveloy.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).