sauvegarde
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,626
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
sauvegarde is aFrenchnoun. It means: Protection accordée par une autorité quelconque. Pronounced \sov.ɡaʁd\. It ranks #7,626 in French word frequency. Often confused with sauvegarder.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sauvegarde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sov.ɡaʁd\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #7,626 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sauvegarde is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sov.ɡaʁd\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,626 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for sauvegarde, with forms such as "asuvegarde", "sauevgarde", and "sauveagrde". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "sauvegarder", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is sauvegarde, spelled S-A-U-V-E-G-A-R-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Protection accordée par une autorité quelconque.
- 2Titre, de l’écrit par lequel cette protection est accordée.
- 3Personne ou d’une chose qui sert de garantie, de défense contre un danger qu’on redoute.
- 4Action de mettre en sécurité des informations importantes.
- 5Les données sécurisées elles-mêmes.
- 6Bande de papier faite pour protéger les gardes des livres pendant la reliure.
- 7Cordage permettant de retenir quelque chose.
- 8Ensemble des dispositions prévues lors de la campagne de lancement ou de la rentrée atmosphérique d’un engin spatial afin d’assurer la sécurité des personnes et des biens dans les espaces terrestres, maritimes et aériens.
- 9Résultat des dispositions de sauvegarde.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asuvegarde,sauevgarde,sauveagrde,sauvegadre,sauvegardde,sauvegared,sauvegarrde,sauveggarde,sauvegrade,sauvgearde,sauvvegarde,savuegarde,ssauvegarde,suavegarde
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sauvegarde
Misspelling Variants of "sauvegarde"
Frequency rank: #7,626 in French
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