saviour
noun
saviour is a noun meaning “UK and Canada spelling of savior” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-A-V-I-O-U-R, and it appears 2.1 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of saviour is saviours.
What does saviour mean?
noun
- 1
UK and Canada spelling of savior.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce saviour?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-saviour.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of saviour
- saviours plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is saviour?
Saviour appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 18,811th 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).
Words people confuse with saviour
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).