savetier

\sav.tje\

/\sav.tje\/ noun

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The verdict

“savetier” is uncommon French (frequency #99,624 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#99,624
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui dont le métier est de raccommoder de vieux souliers.

Corpus desk

Index FR-savetier · savetier · French

savetier · rank #99,624 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #99,624
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH satsuma

Nearest frequency peer: satsuma (-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 « savetier »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « savetier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for savetier
PropertyValue
Headwordsavetier
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sav.tje\
Letters8
Frequency rank#99,624
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « savetier » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).savetiertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « satsuma » (#99,622), « scales » (#99,627), « satrapes » (#99,620). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « savetier » est au #99,624. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

savetier is uncommon French at frequency #99,624 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sav.tje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for savetier, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is savetier, spelled S-A-V-E-T-I-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celui dont le métier est de raccommoder de vieux souliers.
  2. 2
    Mauvais ouvrier en quelque métier que ce soit.
  3. 3
    Synonyme de épinoche, épinoche à trois épines dorsales (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Il n’y a par ici ni savetiers ni cordonniers, répondit l’autre. Nous sommes tous sabotiers de père en fils et, de notre vie vivante, nous n’avons porté de souliers.
  2. […] : les docteurs du Talmud ne donnaient-ils pas eux-mêmes l’exemple en exerçant, pour assurer leur gagne-pain, les métiers les plus humbles, tels que forgerons, ou savetier, ou fabricant d’épingles, etc. ?

Synonyms

cordonniertaconnier

This word in other languages

cobbler(English)zapatero(Español)Schuhmacher(Deutsch)

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 "savetier"?
"savetier" is spelled S-A-V-E-T-I-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \sav.tje\.
What does "savetier" mean?
As a noun, "savetier" means: Celui dont le métier est de raccommoder de vieux souliers.
How do you pronounce "savetier"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "savetier" is \sav.tje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "savetier" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

satrapes#99,620secundus#99,631sabotier#99,611showdown#99,643

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list