savaient
\sa.vɛ\
The verdict
“savaient” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,241. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,241
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de savoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-savaient · savaient · French
savaient · rank #7,241 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,241
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sauveur
Nearest frequency peer: sauveur (-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 « savaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- règlements
règlements
92,763 corpus weight
- récupération
récupération
92,762 corpus weight
- sauveur
sauveur
92,761 corpus weight
- savaient
savaient
92,760 corpus weight
- semestre
semestre
92,759 corpus weight
- sergent
sergent
92,758 corpus weight
What this shows « savaient » 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 | savaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sa.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,241 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « savaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around savaient (IPA \sa.vɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,241 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de savoir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for savaient, with forms such as "asvaient", "saavient", and "savaeint". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "savent", "savait", "savant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 savaient, spelled S-A-V-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de savoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how savaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tes anciens clients ne savaient pas que tu revenais.
Ses mains savaient, ses doigts chauffaient à blanc, modelaient, polissaient, lustraient.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asvaient
- saavient
- savaeint
- savaiennt
- savaientt
- savaietn
- savainet
- saviaent
- savvaient
- ssavaient
- svaaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of savaient - 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 "savaient", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).