sauveur

\so.vœʁ\

/\so.vœʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“sauveur” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,240. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,240
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui sauve ; libérateur.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sauveur · sauveur · French

sauveur · rank #7,240 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,240
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH récupération

Nearest frequency peer: récupération (-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 « sauveur »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « sauveur » 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).

sauveur vs sueur
71% similar
sauveur vs saveur
86% similar
sauveur vs sauvez
71% similar

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

Key facts for sauveur
PropertyValue
Headwordsauveur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\so.vœʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#7,240
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sauveur »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.sauveurse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « récupération » (#7,239), « savaient » (#7,241), « règlements » (#7,238). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sauveur » est au #7,240. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around sauveur (IPA \so.vœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,240 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for sauveur, with forms such as "asuveur", "sauevur", and "sauveru". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sueur", "saveur", "sauvez", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is sauveur, spelled S-A-U-V-E-U-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celui qui sauve ; libérateur.
  2. 2
    Jésus-Christ.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Mais quand tout fut fini, les magnats accoururent des quatre coins de la Pologne, en qualité de sauveurs de la patrie. Les sauveurs sont la plaie des révolutions populaires.
  2. Il n’est pas de sauveurs suprêmes : Ni Dieu, ni César, ni Tribun. Producteurs, sauvons-nous nous-mêmes ; Décrétons le salut commun !

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asuveur
  • sauevur
  • sauveru
  • sauveurr
  • sauvuer
  • sauvveur
  • savueur
  • ssauveur
  • suaveur

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

asuveur2sauevur2sauveru2sauveurr1sauvuer2sauvveur1savueur2ssauveur1
Edit distance from "sauveur"

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 "sauveur"?
"sauveur" is spelled S-A-U-V-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \so.vœʁ\.
What does "sauveur" mean?
As a noun, "sauveur" means: Celui qui sauve ; libérateur.
What words are commonly confused with "sauveur"?
"sauveur" is commonly confused with "sueur", "saveur", "sauvez". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sauveur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sauveur" is \so.vœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sauveur" come from?
"sauveur" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list