Sau
\zaʊ̯\
The verdict
“Sau” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,487) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,487
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Truie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sau · Sau · French
Sau · rank #40,487 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,487
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sauveteur
Nearest frequency peer: sauveteur (+2 rank slots)
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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « Sau »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- sample
sample
59,518 corpus weight
- sangle
sangle
59,517 corpus weight
- Sau
Sau
59,514 corpus weight
- sauveteur
sauveteur
59,512 corpus weight
- scalpel
scalpel
59,511 corpus weight
- Schaerbeek
Schaerbeek
59,510 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Sau » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | Sau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \zaʊ̯\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #40,487 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Sau »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Sau is neighbouring look-alikes ("se", "si", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \zaʊ̯\. Frequency #40,487 among 6,032 “S” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Sau in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "se", "si", "st", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Sau, spelled S-A-U.
Definition
- 1Truie.
- 2Sanglier. (pluriel : Sauen)
- 3ou Cochon, porc. (pluriel : Säue)
- 4Carte à jouer, la plus forte du jeu de cartes allemand qui correspond à l’as du jeu de cartes français. Cette carte représentait à l’origine une truie. , (Allemagne du sud).
- 5Terme injurieux pour une sale ou obscène.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wir müssen noch den Eber zur Sau führen.
Hast du die Säue schon gefüttert?
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).