salaire minimum
\sa.lɛʁ mi.ni.mɔm\
The verdict
“salaire minimum” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Montant minimum légal qu'un employeur doit verser à ses salariés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salaire minimum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.lɛʁ mi.ni.mɔm\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “salaire minimum” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
salaire minimum is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.lɛʁ mi.ni.mɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Montant minimum légal qu'un employeur doit verser à ses salariés.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for salaire minimum, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is salaire minimum, spelled S-A-L-A-I-R-E- -M-I-N-I-M-U-M.
Definition
- 1Montant minimum légal qu'un employeur doit verser à ses salariés.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-A-L-A-I-R-E- -M-I-N-I-M-U-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sa.lɛʁ mi.ni.mɔm\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.