Saumur
\so.myʁ\
The verdict
“Saumur” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,464. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,464
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de Maine-et-Loire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-saumur · Saumur · French
Saumur · rank #21,464 · 8 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,464
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sant
Nearest frequency peer: sant (-1 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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Saumur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rêvez
rêvez
78,540 corpus weight
- sant
sant
78,538 corpus weight
- Saumur
Saumur
78,537 corpus weight
- scrupule
scrupule
78,536 corpus weight
- selles
selles
78,535 corpus weight
- sexistes
sexistes
78,534 corpus weight
What this shows « Saumur » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Saumur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \so.myʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #21,464 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Saumur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Saumur (IPA \so.myʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #21,464 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Saumur, with forms such as "asumur", "samuur", and "saummur". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "sueur", "sauver", "sauter", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Saumur, spelled S-A-U-M-U-R.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de Maine-et-Loire.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département de Maine-et-Loire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Saumur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’autres répliquaient que monsieur et madame des Grassins étaient nobles, puissamment riches, qu’Adolphe était un bien gentil cavalier, et qu’à moins d’avoir un neveu du pape dans sa manche, une alliance si convenable devait satisfaire des gens de rien, un homme que tout Saumur avait vu la doloire en main.
Andréa fouillait dans sa coiffeuse. Elle l'avait trouvée dans une salle des ventes à Saumur et arrachée de haute lutte à une équipe de brocanteurs rapaces pour la somme de trois cent cinquante francs.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asumur
- samuur
- saummur
- saumru
- saumurr
- sauumr
- ssaumur
- suamur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Saumur - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Saumur", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).