savor
"savor" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“savor” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #29,826. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,826
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of savour.
Corpus desk
Index EN-savor · savor · English
savor · rank #29,826 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,826
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sass
Nearest frequency peer: sass (-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 “savor”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Sagan
Sagan
70,179 corpus weight
- sandman
sandman
70,178 corpus weight
- sass
sass
70,176 corpus weight
- savor
savor
70,175 corpus weight
- schoolteach…
schoolteacher
70,173 corpus weight
- Schwab
Schwab
70,172 corpus weight
What this shows “savor” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | savor |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,826 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “savor”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around savor, anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,826 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Alternative spelling of savour.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for savor, with forms such as "asvor", "saovr", and "savorr". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sor", "Saxon", "savvy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is savor, spelled S-A-V-O-R.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of savour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how savor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[B]y our Sences which conceiue al Colours, Sounds, Sents, Sauors, and Féelings; wée may ſee, heare, ſmell, taſt, and feele, that one ſelfſame workman made both the Sences, and the things that are ſubiect to the Sences.
Matr[euis]. Gurney, I vvonder the king dies not, / Being in a vault vp to the knees in vvater, / To vvhich the channels of the caſtell runne, / […] / Gurn[ey]. And ſo do I, Matreuis: yeſternight / I opened but the doore to throvv him meate, / And I vvas almoſt ſtifeled vvith the ſauor.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asvor
- saovr
- savorr
- savro
- savvor
- ssavor
- svaor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of savor - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "savor", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).