ancre de salut
\ɑ̃kʁ də sa.ly\
The verdict
“ancre de salut” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Ancre la plus grande et la plus pesante du bord, utilisée pour les mouillages de longue durée ou dans des endroits peu sûrs, et qui, en raison de son poids, était aussi jetée en dernier recours dan...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ancre de salut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃kʁ də sa.ly\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ancre de salut” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ancre de salut is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃kʁ də sa.ly\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for ancre de salut in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ancre de salut, spelled A-N-C-R-E- -D-E- -S-A-L-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ancre la plus grande et la plus pesante du bord, utilisée pour les mouillages de longue durée ou dans des endroits peu sûrs, et qui, en raison de son poids, était aussi jetée en dernier recours dans les cas désespérés.
- 2La seule chose qui puisse sauver quelqu’un, la plus sûre ou l’unique ressource qu’il possède.
Synonyms
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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- The one correct French spelling is A-N-C-R-E- -D-E- -S-A-L-U-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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