savanna
/səˈvænə/noun
savanna is spelled S-A-V-A-N-N-A: 7 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 35,748th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Savanna, the name). People search “savanna vs savannah” about 210 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, savanna means “A mixed woodland-grassland biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of savanna is savannas.
How many letters and syllables are in savanna?
| Letters | 7: S-A-V-A-N-N-A |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 35,748th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is savanna?
Savanna appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 35,748th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Savanna, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce savanna?
- US /səˈvænə/
- /səˈvɛnə/
- US /səˈvɑnə/
Savanna has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-savanna.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with savanna
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: savannah.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with savanna?
8 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as savanna from its last stressed vowel (/ænə/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of savanna
- savannas plural
- savannah
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does savanna mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A mixed woodland-grassland biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Savanna in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense tropical grassland with scattered trees:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does savanna come from?
From Spanish sabana, from Taíno.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).