salamandre
\sa.la.mɑ̃dʁ\
The verdict
“salamandre” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,717. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,717
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Amphibien à quatre pieds et à longue queue à section ronde, qui fait partie des urodèles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salamandre · salamandre · French
salamandre · rank #44,717 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #44,717
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH saloon
Nearest frequency peer: saloon (+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 « salamandre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rééditer
rééditer
55,288 corpus weight
- réélus
réélus
55,287 corpus weight
- rêvons
rêvons
55,286 corpus weight
- salamandre
salamandre
55,284 corpus weight
- saloon
saloon
55,283 corpus weight
- sarcophages
sarcophages
55,281 corpus weight
What this shows « salamandre » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salamandre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.la.mɑ̃dʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #44,717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « salamandre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around salamandre (IPA \sa.la.mɑ̃dʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,717 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for salamandre, with forms such as "aslamandre", "saalmandre", and "salaamndre". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Salamanque", 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is salamandre, spelled S-A-L-A-M-A-N-D-R-E.
Definition
- 1Amphibien à quatre pieds et à longue queue à section ronde, qui fait partie des urodèles.
- 2Nom générique pour désigner la Salamandre terrestre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how salamandre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si la salamandre entendait et la taupe voyait, aucun homme sur terre ne vivrait.
La peau de la salamandre secrète une substance laiteuse toxique et corrosive qui empêche son dessèchement et la protège des prédateurs. Elle lui permet de supporter, momentanément, la chaleur en diminuant la combustion des braises… Mais rapidement, la salamandre succombe.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aslamandre
- saalmandre
- salaamndre
- salamadnre
- salamanddre
- salamander
- salamandrre
- salamanndre
- salamanrde
- salammandre
- salamnadre
- sallamandre
- salmaandre
- slaamandre
- ssalamandre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of salamandre - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
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