savonner
\sa.vɔ.ne\
The verdict
“savonner” is uncommon French (frequency #88,076 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,076
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nettoyer, dégraisser, blanchir avec du savon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-savonner · savonner · French
savonner · rank #88,076 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,076
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH saynète
Nearest frequency peer: saynète (+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 « savonner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sahariens
sahariens
11,930 corpus weight
- salla
salla
11,928 corpus weight
- samoan
samoan
11,927 corpus weight
- savonner
savonner
11,925 corpus weight
- saynète
saynète
11,924 corpus weight
- scandés
scandés
11,923 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « savonner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | savonner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sa.vɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,076 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « savonner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
savonner is uncommon French at frequency #88,076 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sa.vɔ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for savonner in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 savonner, spelled S-A-V-O-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nettoyer, dégraisser, blanchir avec du savon.
- 2, Frotter, couvrir de mousse de savon le menton d’un homme avant d’y passer le rasoir.
- 3Faire une vive réprimande.
- 4Pour un comédien, bafouiller son texte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how savonner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Savonner du linge, des draps, des chemises.
Elles savonnent à tour de bras, frappent à tour de battoir le linge qui s’égoutte sur la planche.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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