sauvageons
\so.va.ʒɔ̃\
The verdict
“sauvageons” is uncommon French (frequency #56,914 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,914
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de sauvageon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sauvageons · sauvageons · French
sauvageons · rank #56,914 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,914
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sautés
Nearest frequency peer: sautés (-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 « sauvageons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- samaritains
samaritains
43,090 corpus weight
- Satie
Satie
43,089 corpus weight
- sautés
sautés
43,088 corpus weight
- sauvageons
sauvageons
43,087 corpus weight
- savourez
savourez
43,086 corpus weight
- scandent
scandent
43,085 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sauvageons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sauvageons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \so.va.ʒɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #56,914 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sauvageons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sauvageons is uncommon French at frequency #56,914 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \so.va.ʒɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de sauvageon.".
sauvageons has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 sauvageons, spelled S-A-U-V-A-G-E-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de sauvageon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sauvageons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En quelques saules chétifs, en quelques sillons d’orge et d’avoine qui croissent péniblement et mûrissent tard, en quelques arbres sauvageons qui portent des fruits âpres et amers.
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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