sauvages
\so.vaʒ\
The verdict
“sauvages” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,989. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,989
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sauvage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sauvages · sauvages · French
sauvages · rank #4,989 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,989
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH satisfaire
Nearest frequency peer: satisfaire (-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 « sauvages »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- réparer
réparer
95,015 corpus weight
- républicain
républicain
95,014 corpus weight
- satisfaire
satisfaire
95,013 corpus weight
- sauvages
sauvages
95,012 corpus weight
- sensibles
sensibles
95,011 corpus weight
- sols
sols
95,010 corpus weight
What this shows « sauvages » 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 | sauvages |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \so.vaʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,989 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sauvages »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around sauvages (IPA \so.vaʒ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,989 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de sauvage.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for sauvages, with forms such as "asuvages", "sauavges", and "sauvaegs". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "sauvés", "savage", "sauvées", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 sauvages, spelled S-A-U-V-A-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sauvage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sauvages appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Enfin, c’était une terrible, une vivante image de ce compromis antisociaux que font les trop faibles représentants du pouvoir avec de sauvages émeutiers.
Les penseurs africains rejettent la tradition multiséculaire que professaient les auteurs eurocentriques considérant les « indigènes » comme des êtres inférieurs, pétulants, sauvages dans leurs émotions, incapables d’appréhender la culture.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asuvages
- sauavges
- sauvaegs
- sauvagess
- sauvagges
- sauvagse
- sauvgaes
- sauvvages
- savuages
- ssauvages
- suavages
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sauvages - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).