salaire

\sa.lɛʁ\

/\sa.lɛʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“salaire” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,150. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,150
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
12
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rémunération pour un travail.

Corpus desk

Index FR-salaire · salaire · French

salaire · rank #2,150 · 9 variants · 12 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,150
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH réponses

Nearest frequency peer: réponses (-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 « salaire »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « salaire » 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).

salaire vs salir
71% similar
salaire vs salive
71% similar
salaire vs Satire
57% similar

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

Key facts for salaire
PropertyValue
Headwordsalaire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sa.lɛʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#2,150
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « salaire »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).salairese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « réponses » (#2,149), « soeur » (#2,151), « réalisation » (#2,148). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « salaire » est au #2,150. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around salaire (IPA \sa.lɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,150 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for salaire, with forms such as "aslaire", "saalire", and "salaier". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "salir", "salive", "Satire", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is salaire, spelled S-A-L-A-I-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Rémunération pour un travail.
  2. 2
    Récompense d’un service.
  3. 3
    Châtiment, punition que mérite une mauvaise action.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. L'emploi de ces salaires bien ou mal distribués, contribue beaucoup à la prospérité ou à la dégradation d'un Royaume, à la régularité ou au dérèglement des mœurs d'une Nation, & à l'accroissement ou à la diminution de la population.
  2. Je découvre ainsi que ce métier, jadis excellent, a beaucoup perdu, la machine fait une concurrence acharnée, les salaires sont bien réduits.

Synonyms

paierétribution

This word in other languages

salary(English)salario(Español)Gage(Deutsch)salário(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aslaire
  • saalire
  • salaier
  • salairre
  • salarie
  • saliare
  • sallaire
  • slaaire
  • ssalaire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of salaire - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

aslaire2saalire2salaier2salairre1salarie2saliare2sallaire1slaaire2
Edit distance from "salaire"

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 "salaire"?
"salaire" is spelled S-A-L-A-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.lɛʁ\.
What does "salaire" mean?
As a noun, "salaire" means: Rémunération pour un travail.
What words are commonly confused with "salaire"?
"salaire" is commonly confused with "salir", "salive", "Satire". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "salaire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "salaire" is \sa.lɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "salaire" come from?
"salaire" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

toucher#2,152rivière#2,146proposé#2,143épreuve#2,158

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

trente9 variantsdoigts9 variantsfruits9 variantspostes9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list