savane

\sa.van\

/\sa.van\/ noun

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The verdict

“savane” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,495. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#25,495
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vaste plaine des régions chaudes où l’on ne trouve pas de forêts, mais la végétation d’une herbe abondante.

Corpus desk

Index FR-savane · savane · French

savane · rank #25,495 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #25,495
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sanguinaire

Nearest frequency peer: sanguinaire (-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 « savane »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « savane » 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).

savane vs save
67% similar
savane vs savon
67% similar
savane vs Shane
50% similar

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

Key facts for savane
PropertyValue
Headwordsavane
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sa.van\
Letters6
Frequency rank#25,495
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « savane »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.savanese 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 « sanguinaire » (#25,494), « sectaire » (#25,496), « sangliers » (#25,493). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « savane » est au #25,495. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around savane (IPA \sa.van\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,495 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for savane, with forms such as "asvane", "saavne", and "savaen". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "save", "savon", "Shane", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

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. The correct French form is savane, spelled S-A-V-A-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Vaste plaine des régions chaudes où l’on ne trouve pas de forêts, mais la végétation d’une herbe abondante.
  2. 2
    Terrain humide parsemé d’arbres résineux.
  3. 3
    Végétation dépourvue de grands arbres.
  4. 4
    Place principale dans une ville ou un village.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Entre Yari et Sissy, dans une savane immense de gamba, nous avons croisé, ce matin, quatre Manga menant à Kano dix ânes chargés de pains de sel et de couffins de natron — une production de ce pays très particulier où abondent les mares salines.
  2. Or, de tous les ligneux présents dans ce type de savane le Stereospermum variabite est le plus compétitif. C'est d'ailleurs la raison pour laquelle il est déjà si bien représenté dans les strates arbustives et arborées.

This word in other languages

savanna(English)sabana(Español)Savanne(Deutsch)savana(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asvane
  • saavne
  • savaen
  • savanne
  • savnae
  • savvane
  • ssavane
  • svaane

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

asvane2saavne2savaen2savanne1savnae2savvane1ssavane1svaane2
Edit distance from "savane"

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 "savane"?
"savane" is spelled S-A-V-A-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.van\.
What does "savane" mean?
As a noun, "savane" means: Vaste plaine des régions chaudes où l’on ne trouve pas de forêts, mais la végétation d’une herbe abondante.
What words are commonly confused with "savane"?
"savane" is commonly confused with "save", "savon", "Shane". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "savane"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "savane" is \sa.van\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "savane" come from?
"savane" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

sphinx#25,500Roanne#25,481triage#25,515unifié#25,520

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

sonnait8 variantsSétif8 variantsravage8 variantswilaya8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list