salamandre maculée
\sa.la.mɑ̃dʁ ma.ky.le\
The verdict
“salamandre maculée” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Espèce d’urodèles de la famille des ambystomatidés, originaire d’Amérique du Nord.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salamandre maculée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.la.mɑ̃dʁ ma.ky.le\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “salamandre maculée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for salamandre maculée is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sa.la.mɑ̃dʁ ma.ky.le\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Espèce d’urodèles de la famille des ambystomatidés, originaire d’Amérique du Nord.".
No misspelling variants are generated for salamandre maculée in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is salamandre maculée, spelled S-A-L-A-M-A-N-D-R-E- -M-A-C-U-L-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce d’urodèles de la famille des ambystomatidés, originaire d’Amérique du Nord.
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- The one correct French spelling is S-A-L-A-M-A-N-D-R-E- -M-A-C-U-L-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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