Savenay
The verdict
“Savenay” is uncommon French (frequency #90,177 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,177
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Loire-Atlantique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-savenay · Savenay · French
Savenay · rank #90,177 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,177
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Schérer
Nearest frequency peer: Schérer (+2 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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Savenay »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sapinière
sapinière
9,828 corpus weight
- saris
saris
9,827 corpus weight
- Savenay
Savenay
9,824 corpus weight
- Schérer
Schérer
9,822 corpus weight
- scuola
scuola
9,821 corpus weight
- scusez
scusez
9,820 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Savenay » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Savenay |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Savenay » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Savenay is uncommon French at frequency #90,177 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de la Loire-Atlantique.".
Savenay doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Savenay, spelled S-A-V-E-N-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Loire-Atlantique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Savenay appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Je suis allé une fois à Guérande pour tirer à la milice, et suis allé à Savenay pour me faire voir à des messieurs qui m’ont mesuré. Si j’avais eu un pouce de plus, j’étais soldat.
Dans le canton de Blain, le maire de la commune de Fay-de-Bretagne a quitté le SIVOS de Savenay pour créer, en tant que conseiller général du canton, une coopération cantonale autour de Blain et asseoir son pouvoir.
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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