sauvagerie
French, noun/so.vaʒ.ʁi/
sauvagerie is spelled S-A-U-V-A-G-E-R-I-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 31,863rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sauvagerie is a French feminine noun meaning “savagery” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “État des hommes sauvages”.
What does sauvagerie mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesavagery
- 2
femininesavagery, barbarity
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. État des hommes sauvages. 2. Manière, humeur, habitudes sauvages. 3. Caractère sauvage, inhospitalier, d'un lieu.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of sauvagerie
- sauvageries plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sauvagerie?
- /so.vaʒ.ʁi/
- \so.vaʒ.ʁi\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sauvagerie
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sauvagerie in French?
sauvagerie appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).