saber
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#43,135
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
saber is aFrenchverb. It means: Savoir Pronounced \səˈbe\. Often confused with ser and sage.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saber |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \səˈbe\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #43,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for saber is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \səˈbe\. Corpus data places it at rank #43,135 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Savoir".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for saber, with forms such as "asber", "sabber", and "saberr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ser", "sage", "salé", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is saber, spelled S-A-B-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Savoir
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asber,sabber,saberr,saebr,sbaer,ssaber
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for saber
Misspelling Variants of "saber"
Frequency rank: #43,135 in French
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Nearby French words
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