sauvagine
\so.va.ʒin\
The verdict
“sauvagine” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble des oiseaux de mer, d’étang et de marais qui ont le goût sauvagin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sauvagine · sauvagine · French
sauvagine · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sauvagine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \so.va.ʒin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
sauvagine is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \so.va.ʒin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
sauvagine has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 sauvagine, spelled S-A-U-V-A-G-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des oiseaux de mer, d’étang et de marais qui ont le goût sauvagin.
- 2Ensemble des gibiers à plume qui effectuent des migrations.
- 3Odeur de ces oiseaux.
- 4Carnassier sauvage à fourrure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sauvagine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est plein de sauvagine ce pays.
C’est un pays de lacs et d’étangs, tout y est plein de sauvagine, on y trouve beaucoup de sauvagine.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.