eau salée
\o sa.le\
The verdict
“eau salée” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Eau non potable car contenant trop de sels minéraux, par opposition à l'eau douce.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eau-salee · eau salée · French
eau salée · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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) |
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Rare enough to double-check
eau salée is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \o sa.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how eau salée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'eau salée est dans la mer.
This word in other languages
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