salan
\ˈsa.lan\
The verdict
“salan” is uncommon French (frequency #78,837 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,837
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de salar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salan · salan · French
salan · rank #78,837 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,837
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sacchi
Nearest frequency peer: sacchi (-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 « salan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sablonneuse
sablonneuse
21,167 corpus weight
- sabords
sabords
21,166 corpus weight
- sacchi
sacchi
21,165 corpus weight
- salan
salan
21,164 corpus weight
- saluces
saluces
21,163 corpus weight
- sandwicherie
sandwicherie
21,161 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « salan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈsa.lan\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #78,837 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « salan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
salan is uncommon French at frequency #78,837 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈsa.lan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de salar.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for salan, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is salan, spelled S-A-L-A-N.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de salar.
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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