Savoie

\sa.vwa\

/\sa.vwa\/ name

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The verdict

“Savoie” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,291. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,291
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
17
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Région alpine délimitée par le Léman au nord, la crête des Alpes à l'est, le Dauphiné au sud et le Rhône à l'ouest.

Corpus desk

Index FR-savoie · Savoie · French

Savoie · rank #5,291 · 7 variants · 17 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,291
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sacrée

Nearest frequency peer: sacrée (-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 « Savoie »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « Savoie » 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).

Savoie vs soie
50% similar
Savoie vs savon
50% similar
Savoie vs Savoy
67% similar

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

Key facts for Savoie
PropertyValue
HeadwordSavoie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\sa.vwa\
Letters6
Frequency rank#5,291
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs17
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Savoie »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Savoiese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sacrée » (#5,290), « sortis » (#5,292), « révolte » (#5,289). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « Savoie » est au #5,291. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around Savoie (IPA \sa.vwa\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #5,291 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Savoie, with forms such as "asvoie", "saovie", and "savioe". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "soie", "savon", "Savoy", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Savoie, spelled S-A-V-O-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Région alpine délimitée par le Léman au nord, la crête des Alpes à l'est, le Dauphiné au sud et le Rhône à l'ouest.
  2. 2
    Comté, duché puis principauté des Alpes, annexée, en 1860, à la France.
  3. 3
    Département français de la région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, dont le numéro de code est 73.
  4. 4
    Ce département et celui de la Haute-Savoie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Temps pluvieux sur le Jura et la Savoie.
  2. Je lui présentai le verre qu'il accepta avec ce sourire que je n'ai jamais trouvé plus cordial que sur la figure des habitans de la Savoie.

This word in other languages

Savoy(English)Savoyen(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asvoie
  • saovie
  • savioe
  • savoei
  • savvoie
  • ssavoie
  • svaoie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

asvoie2saovie2savioe2savoei2savvoie1ssavoie1svaoie2
Edit distance from "Savoie"

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 "Savoie"?
"Savoie" is spelled S-A-V-O-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.vwa\.
What does "Savoie" mean?
As a proper noun, "Savoie" means: Région alpine délimitée par le Léman au nord, la crête des Alpes à l'est, le Dauphiné au sud et le Rhône à l'ouest.
What words are commonly confused with "Savoie"?
"Savoie" is commonly confused with "soie", "savon", "Savoy". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Savoie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Savoie" is \sa.vwa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Savoie" come from?
"Savoie" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

sacrée#5,290sortis#5,292tables#5,297triple#5,302

Similar misspelling depth

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

puits7 variantsvache7 variantspoème7 variantswhite7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list