savonnerie
\sa.vɔn.ʁi\
The verdict
“savonnerie” is uncommon French (frequency #65,506 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,506
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Le métier des savonniers.
Corpus desk
Index FR-savonnerie · savonnerie · French
savonnerie · rank #65,506 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,506
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH schema
Nearest frequency peer: schema (+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 « savonnerie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- salop
salop
34,498 corpus weight
- sane
sane
34,497 corpus weight
- savonnerie
savonnerie
34,495 corpus weight
- schema
schema
34,494 corpus weight
- secondo
secondo
34,493 corpus weight
- Seghers
Seghers
34,492 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « savonnerie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | savonnerie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.vɔn.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #65,506 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « savonnerie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
savonnerie is uncommon French at frequency #65,506 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.vɔn.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for savonnerie, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is savonnerie, spelled S-A-V-O-N-N-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Le métier des savonniers.
- 2Lieu où l’on fait le savon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how savonnerie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les matières premières, suif, saindoux, huiles, etc., que la savonnerie emploie dans sa fabrication sont impures ; […].
Dès qu'il quittait la savonnerie, il filait à l'entraînement, servait de sparring-partner à qui le lui proposait.
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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