Sauvageau
The verdict
“Sauvageau” is uncommon French (frequency #96,359 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,359
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille
Corpus desk
Index FR-sauvageau · Sauvageau · French
Sauvageau · rank #96,359 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,359
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH saurin
Nearest frequency peer: saurin (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Sauvageau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sarment
sarment
3,646 corpus weight
- saucer
saucer
3,644 corpus weight
- saurin
saurin
3,643 corpus weight
- Sauvageau
Sauvageau
3,642 corpus weight
- scared
scared
3,639 corpus weight
- schneck
schneck
3,637 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Sauvageau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sauvageau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #96,359 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Sauvageau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Sauvageau is uncommon French at frequency #96,359 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille".
No misspelling variants are generated for Sauvageau in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Sauvageau, spelled S-A-U-V-A-G-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sauvageau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Véritable visage et pionnière du hockey féminin à Montréal depuis plus d'un quart de siècle, Danièle Sauvageau ne s'est pas fait prier pour accepter l'offre de la Ligue professionnelle de hockey féminin pour devenir la toute première directrice générale de la formation montréalaise.
En plein coeur de la journée de la fête nationale du Québec, et alors qu'elle préparait un processus de « reconstruction » dans son rôle de directrice générale de la Victoire de Montréal, Danièle Sauvageau a eu droit, mardi, à l'honneur suprême au hockey en étant élue au Temple de la renommée dans la catégorie des bâtisseurs.
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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