Salammbô

noun

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The verdict

“Salammbô” is uncommon French (frequency #89,133 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#89,133
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cigarette de la marque Salammbô.

Corpus desk

Index FR-salammbo · Salammbô · French

Salammbô · rank #89,133 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #89,133
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH salage

Nearest frequency peer: salage (-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 « Salammbô »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Salammbô » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Salammbô
PropertyValue
HeadwordSalammbô
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Frequency rank#89,133
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Salammbô » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Salammbôtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « salage » (#89,132), « sacramentaire » (#89,131), « salissage » (#89,135). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « Salammbô » est au #89,133. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Salammbô is uncommon French at frequency #89,133 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cigarette de la marque Salammbô.".

No misspelling variants are generated for Salammbô in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Salammbô, spelled S-A-L-A-M-M-B-Ô.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cigarette de la marque Salammbô.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Salammbô appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Un peu pour des Camels, qu’on se mettait à quatre sur un paquet, ou des Salammbô, à cause du bout doré qui fait chic, mais c’est du foin.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Salammbô"?
"Salammbô" is spelled S-A-L-A-M-M-B-Ô.
What does "Salammbô" mean?
As a noun, "Salammbô" means: Cigarette de la marque Salammbô.
What language does "Salammbô" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Salammbô", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list