sauvette
\so.vɛt\
The verdict
“sauvette” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,350. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,350
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Baguette en osier utilisée par les chiffonniers.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sauvette · sauvette · French
sauvette · rank #49,350 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,350
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH saugrenue
Nearest frequency peer: saugrenue (-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 « sauvette »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sacoches
sacoches
50,654 corpus weight
- sacrifient
sacrifient
50,653 corpus weight
- saugrenue
saugrenue
50,652 corpus weight
- sauvette
sauvette
50,651 corpus weight
- scarlet
scarlet
50,649 corpus weight
- schiappa
schiappa
50,648 corpus weight
What this shows « sauvette » 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 | sauvette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \so.vɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #49,350 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sauvette »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around sauvette (IPA \so.vɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,350 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for sauvette, with forms such as "asuvette", "sauevtte", and "sauvete". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "sujette", "sucette", "sauvée", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sauvette, spelled S-A-U-V-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Baguette en osier utilisée par les chiffonniers.
- 2Jeu d’enfants comparable au jeu du chat.
- 3Fuite (ne s’utilise que dans l’expression : « à la sauvette »).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asuvette
- sauevtte
- sauvete
- sauvetet
- sauvtete
- sauvvette
- savuette
- ssauvette
- suavette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sauvette - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "sauvette", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).