savante
\sa.vɑ̃t\
The verdict
“savante” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,699. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,699
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme savante.
Corpus desk
Index FR-savante · savante · French
savante · rank #22,699 · 10 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,699
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sauna
Nearest frequency peer: sauna (-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 « savante »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- salsa
salsa
77,305 corpus weight
- salt
salt
77,304 corpus weight
- sauna
sauna
77,303 corpus weight
- savante
savante
77,302 corpus weight
- scandaleuse
scandaleuse
77,301 corpus weight
- sedan
sedan
77,300 corpus weight
What this shows « savante » 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 | savante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.vɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #22,699 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « savante »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around savante (IPA \sa.vɑ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,699 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for savante, with forms such as "asvante", "saavnte", and "savanet". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "savent", "savants", "suivante", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is savante, spelled S-A-V-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Femme savante.
- 2Femme qui par ses connaissances approfondies et ses recherches contribue à l’élaboration, au progrès d’une science, et plus spécialement d’une science expérimentale ou exacte ; grande personnalité du monde scientifique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how savante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors qu’elle règne sur la vie intellectuelle d’Alexandrie, la savante païenne est brûlée par des chrétiens en 415 et éclipsée de l’histoire par sainte Catherine.
A voir aussi : le jardin de Marie Curie, son bureau et son laboratoire de chimie personnel conservés comme au temps de la savante.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asvante
- saavnte
- savanet
- savannte
- savantte
- savatne
- savnate
- savvante
- ssavante
- svaante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of savante - 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
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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 (10 here; floor ≥5).