sauvignon blanc
The verdict
“sauvignon blanc” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Un cépage de vigne (Vitis vinifera) français, répandu en France, aux États-Unis, en Afrique du Sud, en Australie et en Nouvelle-Zélande.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sauvignon blanc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \so.vi.ɲɔ̃ blɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sauvignon blanc” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sauvignon blanc is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \so.vi.ɲɔ̃ blɑ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Un cépage de vigne (Vitis vinifera) français, répandu en France, aux États-Unis, en Afrique du Sud, en Australie et en Nouvelle-Zélande.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sauvignon blanc in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 sauvignon blanc, spelled S-A-U-V-I-G-N-O-N- -B-L-A-N-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Un cépage de vigne (Vitis vinifera) français, répandu en France, aux États-Unis, en Afrique du Sud, en Australie et en Nouvelle-Zélande.
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Using “sauvignon blanc”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-A-U-V-I-G-N-O-N- -B-L-A-N-C — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \so.vi.ɲɔ̃ blɑ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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