salon
/səˈlɑn/noun
salon is spelled S-A-L-O-N: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 7.4 times per million words in written English, the 8,669th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “salon vs saloon” about 480 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, salon means “A large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of salon is salons.
How many letters and syllables are in salon?
| Letters | 5: S-A-L-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 7.4 times per million words; the 8,669th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is salon?
Salon appears 7.4 times per million words in written English, the 8,669th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce salon?
- UK /ˈsælɒn/
- US /səˈlɑn/
- Australia /səˈlɔn/
Salon has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-salon.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Simplificationalizer-salon.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with salon
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: saloon.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with salon?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as salon from its last stressed vowel (/ɑn/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of salon
- salons plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does salon mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests.
- 2
A gathering of people for a social or intellectual meeting.
- 3
An art gallery or exhibition; especially the Paris salon or autumn salon.
- 4
A beauty salon or similar establishment.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Salon in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | salon , salon de coiffure, salon de beauté, institut de beauté |
| German | Salon, Halle, Saal , Schönheitssalon |
| Portuguese | salão , salão de beleza , galeria |
| Spanish | salón, sala |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does salon come from?
Borrowed from French salon (“reception room”), from Middle French, from Italian salone (“large hall”), augmented form of sala (“hall”), from Lombardic sala (“room, house, entrance hall”), from Proto-Germanic *salą (“dwelling, house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“human settlement, village, dwelling”). Cognate with Old High German sal (“room, house, entrance hall”), Old English sæl (“room, hall, castle”), Old Church Slavonic село (selo, “courtyard, village”), Lithuanian sala (“island”). Doublet of saloon.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).