société savante
\sɔ.sje.te sa.vɑ̃t\
The verdict
“société savante” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Type particulier de société constituée par l'association d'érudits.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | société savante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.sje.te sa.vɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “société savante” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for société savante is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɔ.sje.te sa.vɑ̃t\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Type particulier de société constituée par l'association d'érudits.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for société savante, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is société savante, spelled S-O-C-I-É-T-É- -S-A-V-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Type particulier de société constituée par l'association d'érudits.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “société savante”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-O-C-I-É-T-É- -S-A-V-A-N-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sɔ.sje.te sa.vɑ̃t\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
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.