salon
/ˈsælɒn/
"salon" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“salon” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #8,725. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,725
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests.
Corpus desk
Index EN-salon · salon · English
salon · rank #8,725 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,725
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH saga
Nearest frequency peer: saga (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “salon”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Robertson
Robertson
91,279 corpus weight
- rubbish
rubbish
91,278 corpus weight
- saga
saga
91,277 corpus weight
- salon
salon
91,276 corpus weight
- seventeen
seventeen
91,275 corpus weight
- sliding
sliding
91,273 corpus weight
What this shows “salon” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsælɒn/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,725 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “salon”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around salon (IPA /ˈsælɒn/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,725 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for salon, with forms such as "aslon", "sallon", and "salno". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "son", "san", "Sao", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: 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-… The correct English form is salon, spelled S-A-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1A large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests.
- 2A gathering of people for a social or intellectual meeting.
- 3An art gallery or exhibition; especially the Paris salon or autumn salon.
- 4A beauty salon or similar establishment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how salon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Matisse showed in every autumn salon and every independent. He was beginning to have a considerable following. Picasso, on the contrary, never in all his life has shown in any salon. His pictures at that time could really only be seen at 27 rue de Fleurus.
Etymology
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.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aslon
- sallon
- salno
- salonn
- saoln
- slaon
- ssalon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of salon - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
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