salama
\ˈsɑ.lɑ.mɑ\
The verdict
“salama” is uncommon French (frequency #77,012 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,012
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Foudre, éclair.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salama · salama · French
salama · rank #77,012 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,012
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sainct
Nearest frequency peer: sainct (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « salama »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- réveillées
réveillées
22,993 corpus weight
- réécrite
réécrite
22,992 corpus weight
- sainct
sainct
22,990 corpus weight
- salama
salama
22,989 corpus weight
- Salzburg
Salzburg
22,987 corpus weight
- Sannois
Sannois
22,985 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « salama » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salama |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈsɑ.lɑ.mɑ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,012 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « salama » en français
Rare enough to double-check
salama is uncommon French at frequency #77,012 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈsɑ.lɑ.mɑ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for salama in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is salama, spelled S-A-L-A-M-A.
Definition
- 1Foudre, éclair.
- 2Flash (le dispositif), éclair (la lumière émise).
Synonyms
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.
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