savonarole
\sa.vɔ.na.ʁɔl\
The verdict
“savonarole” is uncommon French (frequency #81,550 among 394,209 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,550
- frequency rank, French
- 394,209
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sorte de siège, de l'époque de la Renaissance, formé de barres de bois incurvées et croisées en forme de X et à dossier bas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | savonarole |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.vɔ.na.ʁɔl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #81,550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “savonarole” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
savonarole is uncommon French at frequency #81,550 among 394,209 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.vɔ.na.ʁɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sorte de siège, de l'époque de la Renaissance, formé de barres de bois incurvées et croisées en forme de X et à dossier bas.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for savonarole, 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 carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is savonarole, spelled S-A-V-O-N-A-R-O-L-E.
Definition
- 1Sorte de siège, de l'époque de la Renaissance, formé de barres de bois incurvées et croisées en forme de X et à dossier bas.
Synonyms
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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Using “savonarole”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-A-V-O-N-A-R-O-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.