Savignac
\sa.vi.ɲak\
The verdict
“Savignac” is uncommon French (frequency #84,295 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,295
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-savignac · Savignac · French
Savignac · rank #84,295 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,295
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sauvegardées
Nearest frequency peer: sauvegardées (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Savignac »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sarcelle
sarcelle
15,709 corpus weight
- sare
sare
15,708 corpus weight
- sauvegardées
sauvegardées
15,707 corpus weight
- Savignac
Savignac
15,706 corpus weight
- Schiphol
Schiphol
15,704 corpus weight
- Schtroumpfe…
Schtroumpfette
15,703 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Savignac » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Savignac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sa.vi.ɲak\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,295 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Savignac » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Savignac is uncommon French at frequency #84,295 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \sa.vi.ɲak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Savignac in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Savignac, spelled S-A-V-I-G-N-A-C.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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