# saloon

> English word · Noun · IPA /səˈlun/ · frequency rank #16,581

## Definitions
1. A tavern, especially in an American Old West setting.
2. A lounge bar in an English public house, contrasted with the public bar.
3. A car with a boot or trunk compartment separate from the driver/passenger space and with seating and doors for more than two people.
4. The cabin area of a boat or yacht devoted to seated relaxation, often combined with dining table.
5. the part of a rail carriage or multiple unit containing seating for passengers.
6. Dated form of salon (“living room in a house”).
7. A barbershop (store offering haircuts).

## 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.

## Easily confused with
- **soon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/saloon-vs-soon)
- **spoon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/saloon-vs-spoon)
- **Saxon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/saloon-vs-saxon)
- **Sloan** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/saloon-vs-sloan)
- **swoon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/saloon-vs-swoon)
- **salvo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/saloon-vs-salvo)
- **sloop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/saloon-vs-sloop)
- **solon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/saloon-vs-solon)
- **Samson** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/saloon-vs-samson)
- **Samoan** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/saloon-vs-samoan)
- **Sauron** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/saloon-vs-sauron)
- **Solomon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/saloon-vs-solomon)
- **salon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/salon-vs-saloon)
- **salmon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/salmon-vs-saloon)
- **Salman** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/salman-vs-saloon)
- **Saigon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/saigon-vs-saloon)
- **Salome** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/salome-vs-saloon)
- **Salmond** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/salmond-vs-saloon)
- **Salomon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/salomon-vs-saloon)

## Common misspellings (7)
`asloon`, `salloon`, `salono`, `saloonn`, `saolon`, `slaoon`, `ssaloon`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/saloon