animal sauvage
\a.ni.mal so.vaʒ\
The verdict
“animal sauvage” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Animal non domestiqué, encore à l’état de nature.
Corpus desk
Index FR-animal-sauvage · animal sauvage · French
animal sauvage · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | animal sauvage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ni.mal so.vaʒ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « animal sauvage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
animal sauvage is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ni.mal so.vaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Animal non domestiqué, encore à l’état de nature.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for animal sauvage, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is animal sauvage, spelled A-N-I-M-A-L- -S-A-U-V-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Animal non domestiqué, encore à l’état de nature.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how animal sauvage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En droit français, un animal sauvage se dit d’un « animal non détenu ou élevé dans une exploitation ».
Le droit français considère les animaux sauvages apprivoisés ou tenus en captivité.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.