salaire
French, noun/sa.lɛʁ/
salaire is spelled S-A-L-A-I-R-E (7 letters) and appears 39 times per million words in written French, the 2,120th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Salaire is a French masculine noun meaning “salary, wage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rémunération pour un travail”.
What does salaire mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesalary, wage
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Rémunération pour un travail. 2. Récompense d’un service. 3. Châtiment, punition que mérite une mauvaise action.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of salaire
- salaires plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce salaire?
- /sa.lɛʁ/
- \sa.lɛʁ\
- [sa.lɛʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to salaire
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is salaire in French?
salaire appears 39 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).