Salem
\sa.lɛm\
The verdict
“Salem” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,151. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,151
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancien nom de Jérusalem, au temps d'Abraham.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salem · Salem · French
Salem · rank #19,151 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,151
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH réussites
Nearest frequency peer: réussites (-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 « Salem »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- réglages
réglages
80,853 corpus weight
- réussites
réussites
80,851 corpus weight
- Salem
Salem
80,850 corpus weight
- saurai
saurai
80,849 corpus weight
- scientifiqu…
scientifiquement
80,848 corpus weight
- scouts
scouts
80,847 corpus weight
What this shows « Salem » 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 | Salem |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sa.lɛm\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,151 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Salem »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Salem (IPA \sa.lɛm\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #19,151 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Salem, with forms such as "aslem", "saelm", and "salemm". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sam", "sem", "Saxe", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Salem, spelled S-A-L-E-M.
Definition
- 1Ancien nom de Jérusalem, au temps d'Abraham.
- 2Capitale de l'État américain d'Oregon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Salem appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En effet, ce Melchisédek, roi de Salem, sacrificateur du Dieu Très-Haut, qui alla au-devant d’Abraham lorsqu’il revenait de la défaite des rois, qui le bénit, et à qui Abraham donna la dîme de tout, qui est d’abord roi de justice, d’après la signification de son nom, ensuite roi de Salem, c’est-à-dire roi de paix.
Une des plus belles rues du monde est la grand-rue de Salem où vécut Hawthorne, et elle est aujourd’hui telle qu’elle était encore il y a deux cents ans, avec ses grandes maisons du XVIIIᵉ siècle un peu en retrait derrière des rangées d’arbres.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aslem
- saelm
- salemm
- sallem
- salme
- slaem
- ssalem
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Salem - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).