sauvait
\so.vɛ\
The verdict
“sauvait” is uncommon French (frequency #53,625 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,625
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de sauver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sauvait · sauvait · French
sauvait · rank #53,625 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,625
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH saur
Nearest frequency peer: saur (-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 « sauvait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Sanary
Sanary
46,379 corpus weight
- sander
sander
46,378 corpus weight
- saur
saur
46,377 corpus weight
- sauvait
sauvait
46,376 corpus weight
- scam
scam
46,375 corpus weight
- scander
scander
46,374 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sauvait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sauvait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \so.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,625 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sauvait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sauvait is uncommon French at frequency #53,625 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \so.vɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de sauver.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sauvait, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is sauvait, spelled S-A-U-V-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de sauver.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sauvait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À Sainte-Soline, le Samu témoigne, les gendarmes témoignent, la préfète témoigne, les pompiers témoignent… mais rien n’empêche la fake news, alors qu’il a été démontré que le médecin du GIGN a pris tous les risques et qu’il a été bombardé de projectiles tandis qu’il sauvait des blessés.
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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