sauvetage

\sov.taʒ\

/\sov.taʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“sauvetage” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,997. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,997
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de sauver un navire, une embarcation en détresse, des marchandises et des effets naufragés.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sauvetage · sauvetage · French

sauvetage · rank #6,997 · 12 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,997
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH saine

Nearest frequency peer: saine (-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 « sauvetage »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « sauvetage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

sauvetage vs sauvette
78% similar
sauvetage vs sauvetages
90% similar
sauvetage vs sauvage
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for sauvetage
PropertyValue
Headwordsauvetage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sov.taʒ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#6,997
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sauvetage »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).sauvetagese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « saine » (#6,996), « sexualité » (#6,998), « rires » (#6,995). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sauvetage » est au #6,997. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around sauvetage (IPA \sov.taʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,997 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for sauvetage, with forms such as "asuvetage", "sauevtage", and "sauveatge". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "sauvette", "sauvetages", "sauvage", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sauvetage, spelled S-A-U-V-E-T-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de sauver un navire, une embarcation en détresse, des marchandises et des effets naufragés.
  2. 2
    Action de sauver des hommes en danger de mort, dans un naufrage, dans un incendie, etc.
  3. 3
    Action pour un lanceur de terminer un match en conservant l'avance au score acquise plus tôt dans la partie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how sauvetage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Un commerçant grec vint de cette ville et, avec l'aide d'Arabes habitant la côte voisine, entreprit le sauvetage de la cargaison. Le capitaine Carlin lui promit un tiers de la cargaison. Le sauvetage commença immédiatement et continua jusqu'au 6 mars, époque à laquelle une grande partie de la cargaison se trouva sauvée.
  2. Une campagne de crowdfunding a d’ailleurs été lancée. Le but est de réunir la maximum de dons pour aider les clubs de sauvetage côtier de Nouvelle-Aquitaine à acquérir du matériel et développer la formation des jeunes MNS.

This word in other languages

salvage(English)Rettung(Deutsch)salvamento(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asuvetage
  • sauevtage
  • sauveatge
  • sauvetaeg
  • sauvetagge
  • sauvetgae
  • sauvettage
  • sauvteage
  • sauvvetage
  • savuetage
  • ssauvetage
  • suavetage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sauvetage - 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.

asuvetage2sauevtage2sauveatge2sauvetaeg2sauvetagge1sauvetgae2sauvettage1sauvteage2
Edit distance from "sauvetage"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sauvetage"?
"sauvetage" is spelled S-A-U-V-E-T-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sov.taʒ\.
What does "sauvetage" mean?
As a noun, "sauvetage" means: Action de sauver un navire, une embarcation en détresse, des marchandises et des effets naufragés.
What words are commonly confused with "sauvetage"?
"sauvetage" is commonly confused with "sauvette", "sauvetages", "sauvage". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sauvetage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sauvetage" is \sov.taʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sauvetage" come from?
"sauvetage" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sauvetage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

sexualité#6,998rapporter#6,991périmètre#6,990pressions#6,988

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

sérieuses12 variantsVladimir12 variantséteindre12 variantsannulation12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list