salade
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,236
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
salade is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mets à base d’herbes potagères, ou de certains légumes, assaisonné d’une vinaigrette et parfois agrémenté d’autres ingrédients. Pronounced \sa.lad\. It ranks #6,236 in French word frequency. Often confused with salé and salle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.lad\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for salade is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sa.lad\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,236 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for salade, with forms such as "aslade", "saalde", and "saladde". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "salé", "salle", "stade", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 salade, spelled S-A-L-A-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mets à base d’herbes potagères, ou de certains légumes, assaisonné d’une vinaigrette et parfois agrémenté d’autres ingrédients.
- 2Herbes potagères destinées à être ainsi assaisonnées.
- 3Mets composé de divers ingrédients mélangés dans un saladier, tel qu’un mélange de fruits et de sirop, de morceaux de viande assaisonnés, etc.
- 4Situation confuse et compliquée, brouillamini, pot-pourri, pastis.
- 5(généralement au pluriel) Discours mensonger, baratin, boniment.
- 6Pièce de camouflage destinée à être posée sur un casque et ressemblant à de la végétation.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aslade,saalde,saladde,salaed,saldae,sallade,slaade,ssalade
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "salade"
Frequency rank: #6,236 in French
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