sauvegarde

/\sov.ɡaʁd\/ noun

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.

Key facts for sauvegarde
PropertyValue
Headwordsauvegarde
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sov.ɡaʁd\
Letters10
Frequency rank#7,626
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of sauvegarde in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

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

  1. 1
    Protection accordée par une autorité quelconque.
  2. 2
    Titre, de l’écrit par lequel cette protection est accordée.
  3. 3
    Personne ou d’une chose qui sert de garantie, de défense contre un danger qu’on redoute.
  4. 4
    Action de mettre en sécurité des informations importantes.
  5. 5
    Les données sécurisées elles-mêmes.
  6. 6
    Bande de papier faite pour protéger les gardes des livres pendant la reliure.
  7. 7
    Cordage permettant de retenir quelque chose.
  8. 8
    Ensemble 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.
  9. 9
    Résultat des dispositions de sauvegarde.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

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"

asuvegarde10sauevgarde10sauveagrde10sauvegadre10sauvegardde11sauvegared10sauvegarrde11sauveggarde11
Misspelling Variants of "sauvegarde"

Frequency rank: #7,626 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sauvegarde"?
"sauvegarde" is spelled S-A-U-V-E-G-A-R-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sov.ɡaʁd\.
What does "sauvegarde" mean?
As a noun, "sauvegarde" means: Protection accordée par une autorité quelconque.
What words are commonly confused with "sauvegarde"?
"sauvegarde" is commonly confused with "sauvegarder". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sauvegarde"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sauvegarde" is \sov.ɡaʁd\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sauvegarde" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.