savior
/ˈseɪvjɚ/noun
savior is spelled S-A-V-I-O-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 4.7 times per million words in written English, the 11,685th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “savior vs saviour” about 390 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, savior means “A person who saves someone, rescues another from harm” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of savior is saviors.
How many letters and syllables are in savior?
| Letters | 6: S-A-V-I-O-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.7 times per million words; the 11,685th 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 savior?
Savior appears 4.7 times per million words in written English, the 11,685th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce savior?
- US /ˈseɪvjɚ/
- UK /ˈseɪvjə/
Savior has 2 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)-Wodencafe-savior.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with savior
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with savior?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as savior from its last stressed vowel (/eɪvjəɹ/):
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 savior
- saviors plural
- saviour
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does savior mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
USA person who saves someone, rescues another from harm.
- 2
USA child who is conceived in order to provide an organ or cell transplant to a sibling who has an otherwise fatal disease (used in combination, with "sibling", "baby", "child", "brother", "sister", etc.)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Savior in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a person who saves someone, rescues another from harm:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | sauveur, sauveuse |
| German | Erlöser, Erlöserin, Retter, Retterin, Erretter, Erretterin |
| Portuguese | salvador, salvadora |
| Spanish | salvador, salvadora |
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 savior come from?
First attested in 1300 as Middle English saveour, from Old French sauveour, from Late Latin salvātor, from salvō. Doublet of salvator. Displaced native Old English hǣlend.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).