sauvant
\so.vɑ̃\
The verdict
“sauvant” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,536. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,536
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de sauver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sauvant · sauvant · French
sauvant · rank #29,536 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,536
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH savamment
Nearest frequency peer: savamment (+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 « sauvant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sacerdoce
sacerdoce
70,468 corpus weight
- saluent
saluent
70,467 corpus weight
- sauvant
sauvant
70,465 corpus weight
- savamment
savamment
70,464 corpus weight
- Senlis
Senlis
70,463 corpus weight
- sense
sense
70,462 corpus weight
What this shows « sauvant » 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 | sauvant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \so.vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,536 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sauvant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around sauvant (IPA \so.vɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #29,536 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de sauver.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sauvant, with forms such as "asuvant", "sauavnt", and "sauvannt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "savent", "savait", "savant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is sauvant, spelled S-A-U-V-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de sauver.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asuvant
- sauavnt
- sauvannt
- sauvantt
- sauvatn
- sauvnat
- sauvvant
- savuant
- ssauvant
- suavant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sauvant - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sauvant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).