salami
\sa.la.mi\
The verdict
“salami” is uncommon French (frequency #54,888 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,888
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Saucisson de grande taille d’origine italienne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salami · salami · French
salami · rank #54,888 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,888
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH saccharose
Nearest frequency peer: saccharose (-2 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 « salami »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- saada
saada
45,117 corpus weight
- sabah
sabah
45,116 corpus weight
- saccharose
saccharose
45,115 corpus weight
- salami
salami
45,113 corpus weight
- Sandler
Sandler
45,111 corpus weight
- satisfera
satisfera
45,110 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « salami » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salami |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.la.mi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,888 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « salami » en français
Rare enough to double-check
salami is uncommon French at frequency #54,888 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.la.mi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for salami, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is salami, spelled S-A-L-A-M-I.
Definition
- 1Saucisson de grande taille d’origine italienne.
- 2Ensemble découpé en infimes parties.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how salami appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pendant les jours suivants, jusqu'au dixième jour, aucun changement appréciable n'intervient, mais la faute de séchage s'accentue : apparition d'une croûte brune très adhérente à l'enveloppe, sans formation de vides à l'intérieur du salami.
En fermant les yeux, Jeanne revoit cette boutique minuscule où s'entassent les jarres d’huile et les sacs de farine, où pendent, au plafond, des balais et des brosses, des salamis et des cordes à sauter.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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