eau salée
\o sa.le\
The verdict
“eau salée” 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
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Eau non potable car contenant trop de sels minéraux, par opposition à l'eau douce.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eau salée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o sa.le\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “eau salée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for eau salée is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o sa.le\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Eau non potable car contenant trop de sels minéraux, par opposition à l'eau douce.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for eau salée in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is eau salée, spelled E-A-U- -S-A-L-É-E.
Definition
- 1Eau non potable car contenant trop de sels minéraux, par opposition à l'eau douce.
This word in other languages
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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Using “eau salée”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is E-A-U- -S-A-L-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \o sa.le\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.