saveur

\sa.vœʁ\

/\sa.vœʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“saveur” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,618. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#8,618
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
19
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité qui est l’objet du goût, impression produite sur les organes du goût et de l’olfaction.

Corpus desk

Index FR-saveur · saveur · French

saveur · rank #8,618 · 7 variants · 19 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,618
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sara

Nearest frequency peer: sara (-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 « saveur »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « saveur » 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).

saveur vs savez
67% similar
saveur vs soeur
67% similar
saveur vs sueur
67% similar

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

Key facts for saveur
PropertyValue
Headwordsaveur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sa.vœʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#8,618
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs19
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « saveur »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.saveurse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sara » (#8,617), « sexes » (#8,619), « sapin » (#8,616). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « saveur » est au #8,618. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around saveur (IPA \sa.vœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,618 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for saveur, with forms such as "asveur", "saevur", and "saveru". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "savez", "soeur", "sueur", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 saveur, spelled S-A-V-E-U-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qualité qui est l’objet du goût, impression produite sur les organes du goût et de l’olfaction.
  2. 2
    Vivacité ou piquant qui séduit l’esprit.
  3. 3
    Variété de certaines particules telles que les quarks ou les leptons.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. À mesure que le rhum vieillit, il se colore, se brunit ; il prend, avec une odeur piquante, une saveur acre & desséchante, dont la nuance empyreumatique huileuse fait dire, à ceux qui n’y sont point accoutumés, que cette liqueur sent le vieux cuir.
  2. Peu de consommateurs savent que les choux d’York, pain de sucre et cœur de bœuf, sont préférables sous le rapport de la saveur a toutes les autres espèces, quand on les laisse pommer complétement.

This word in other languages

savor(English)sabor(Español)Geschmack(Deutsch)sabor(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asveur
  • saevur
  • saveru
  • saveurr
  • savveur
  • ssaveur
  • svaeur

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of saveur - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

asveur2saevur2saveru2saveurr1savveur1ssaveur1svaeur2
Edit distance from "saveur"

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 "saveur"?
"saveur" is spelled S-A-V-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.vœʁ\.
What does "saveur" mean?
As a noun, "saveur" means: Qualité qui est l’objet du goût, impression produite sur les organes du goût et de l’olfaction.
What words are commonly confused with "saveur"?
"saveur" is commonly confused with "savez", "soeur", "sueur". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "saveur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "saveur" is \sa.vœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "saveur" come from?
"saveur" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

salons#8,615venons#8,633poètes#8,602vertus#8,634

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

sexes7 variantssapin7 variantsvital7 variantspassif7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list