salade

\sa.lad\

/\sa.lad\/ noun

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The verdict

“salade” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,236. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,236
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mets à base d’herbes potagères, ou de certains légumes, assaisonné d’une vinaigrette et parfois agrémenté d’autres ingrédients.

Corpus desk

Index FR-salade · salade · French

salade · rank #6,236 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,236
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sachez

Nearest frequency peer: sachez (-1 rank slots)

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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « salade »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « salade » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

salade vs salé
50% similar
salade vs salle
67% similar
salade vs stade
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for salade
PropertyValue
Headwordsalade
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sa.lad\
Letters6
Frequency rank#6,236
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « salade »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).saladese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sachez » (#6,235), « régionaux » (#6,234), « Samuel » (#6,238). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « salade » est au #6,236. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around salade (IPA \sa.lad\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,236 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for salade, with forms such as "aslade", "saalde", and "saladde". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "salé", "salle", "stade", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is salade, spelled S-A-L-A-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mets à base d’herbes potagères, ou de certains légumes, assaisonné d’une vinaigrette et parfois agrémenté d’autres ingrédients.
  2. 2
    Herbes potagères destinées à être ainsi assaisonnées.
  3. 3
    Mets composé de divers ingrédients mélangés dans un saladier, tel qu’un mélange de fruits et de sirop, de morceaux de viande assaisonnés, etc.
  4. 4
    Situation confuse et compliquée, brouillamini, pot-pourri, pastis.
  5. 5
    (généralement au pluriel) Discours mensonger, baratin, boniment.
  6. 6
    Pièce de camouflage destinée à être posée sur un casque et ressemblant à de la végétation.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how salade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il fut intéressé par la salade de carottes râpées en longues lamelles. Il en prit une fourchettée, mâcha. Le goût le surprit. Il n'appréciait pas.
  2. La solution se trouve dans les jardins disséminés çà et là. Beaucoup d’habitants y passent une partie de la journée, devisant joyeusement de parcelle à parcelle en plantant des salades.

Synonyms

mensongehâbleriebaratinbonimentpipeau

This word in other languages

salad(English)ensalada(Español)Salat(Deutsch)salada(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aslade
  • saalde
  • saladde
  • salaed
  • saldae
  • sallade
  • slaade
  • ssalade

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of salade - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

aslade2saalde2saladde1salaed2saldae2sallade1slaade2ssalade1
Edit distance from "salade"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "salade"?
"salade" is spelled S-A-L-A-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.lad\.
What does "salade" mean?
As a noun, "salade" means: Mets à base d’herbes potagères, ou de certains légumes, assaisonné d’une vinaigrette et parfois agrémenté d’autres ingrédients.
What words are commonly confused with "salade"?
"salade" is commonly confused with "salé", "salle", "stade". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "salade"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "salade" is \sa.lad\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "salade" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "salade", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

sachez#6,235Samuel#6,238rumeur#6,233reçois#6,232

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

vivait8 variantsAlexis8 variantsboisson8 variantsdédiée8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list