saloon
/səˈlun/
"saloon" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“saloon” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #16,581. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,581
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A tavern, especially in an American Old West setting.
Corpus desk
Index EN-saloon · saloon · English
saloon · rank #16,581 · 7 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,581
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Sachs
Nearest frequency peer: Sachs (-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 “saloon”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- rumble
rumble
83,422 corpus weight
- Sachs
Sachs
83,421 corpus weight
- saloon
saloon
83,420 corpus weight
- sanction
sanction
83,419 corpus weight
- sexes
sexes
83,418 corpus weight
- shack
shack
83,417 corpus weight
What this shows “saloon” 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 | saloon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /səˈlun/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,581 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “saloon”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around saloon (IPA /səˈlun/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,581 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for saloon, with forms such as "asloon", "salloon", and "salono". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "soon", "spoon", "Saxon", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Occitan salon, French salon, either augmentative of salle (“room”), or borrowed from Italian salone (“hall”), augmentative form of sala, salla (“room”); in both cases borrowed from a Germanic source such as Old High German sal (“house, hall”), from Pro… The correct English form is saloon, spelled S-A-L-O-O-N.
Definition
- 1A tavern, especially in an American Old West setting.
- 2A lounge bar in an English public house, contrasted with the public bar.
- 3A car with a boot or trunk compartment separate from the driver/passenger space and with seating and doors for more than two people.
- 4The cabin area of a boat or yacht devoted to seated relaxation, often combined with dining table.
- 5the part of a rail carriage or multiple unit containing seating for passengers.
- 6Dated form of salon (“living room in a house”).
- 7A barbershop (store offering haircuts).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how saloon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonyms: pub; see also Thesaurus:pub
A pint of beer in the saloon bar costs a penny more than in the public bar.
Etymology
From Occitan salon, French salon, either augmentative of salle (“room”), or borrowed from Italian salone (“hall”), augmentative form of sala, salla (“room”); in both cases borrowed from a Germanic source such as Old High German sal (“house, hall”), from Proto-Germanic *salą, from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“dwelling”). Doublet of salon.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asloon
- salloon
- salono
- saloonn
- saolon
- slaoon
- ssaloon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of saloon - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).