sauveteur
\sov.tœʁ\
The verdict
“sauveteur” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,489. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,489
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui prend part à un sauvetage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sauveteur · sauveteur · French
sauveteur · rank #40,489 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,489
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scalpel
Nearest frequency peer: scalpel (+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 « sauveteur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Sau
Sau
59,514 corpus weight
- sauveteur
sauveteur
59,512 corpus weight
- scalpel
scalpel
59,511 corpus weight
- Schaerbeek
Schaerbeek
59,510 corpus weight
- secure
secure
59,509 corpus weight
- sellette
sellette
59,508 corpus weight
What this shows « sauveteur » 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 | sauveteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sov.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #40,489 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sauveteur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around sauveteur (IPA \sov.tœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,489 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for sauveteur, with forms such as "asuveteur", "sauevteur", and "sauveetur". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "sauveur", "sauveteurs", "salvateur", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sauveteur, spelled S-A-U-V-E-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui prend part à un sauvetage.
- 2Un bateau sauveteur, Une embarcation employée au sauvetage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sauveteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il eut une médaille comme sauveteur.
Une brigade de sauvetage du comté de Los Angeles (L.A. County Beach Patrol) menée par le lieutenant Mitch Buchannon et composée d'une dizaine de sauveteurs doit faire face chaque jour aux dangers de la plage, tout en composant avec leur vie personnelle.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asuveteur
- sauevteur
- sauveetur
- sauveteru
- sauveteurr
- sauvetteur
- sauvetuer
- sauvteeur
- sauvveteur
- savueteur
- ssauveteur
- suaveteur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sauveteur - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "sauveteur", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).