saleté

\sal.te\

/\sal.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“saleté” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,678. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,678
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de ce qui est sale, malpropre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-salete · saleté · French

saleté · rank #19,678 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #19,678
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sandales

Nearest frequency peer: sandales (+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 « saleté »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « saleté » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

saleté vs salt
67% similar
saleté vs santé
67% similar
saleté vs salle
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for saleté
PropertyValue
Headwordsaleté
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sal.te\
Letters6
Frequency rank#19,678
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « saleté »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.saletése place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sandales » (#19,679), « signalée » (#19,680), « répètent » (#19,675). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « saleté » est au #19,678. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around saleté (IPA \sal.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,678 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for saleté, with forms such as "asleté", "saelté", and "salete". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "salt", "santé", "salle", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is saleté, spelled S-A-L-E-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    État de ce qui est sale, malpropre.
  2. 2
    Chose qui est sale par elle-même.
  3. 3
    Obscénité.
  4. 4
    Parole, image, comportement, sale et obscène.
  5. 5
    Vilenie, méchanceté.
  6. 6
    Chose qui ne vaut rien, qui n’a pas de valeur.
  7. 7
    Ordure, personne méprisable.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La saleté de ses habits, de son linge, de ses meubles. - La saleté des rues. - Cet homme est d’une saleté dégoûtante.
  2. Il y a ici de la saleté, des saletés, qu’il faut ôter.

Synonyms

saloperiebordillecochonneriecrassedétrituséquevilleescobilleimmondicemalpropretésalissuresouillureimpureté

This word in other languages

dirtiness(English)suciedad(Español)Zote(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asleté
  • saelté
  • salete
  • saletté
  • saleét
  • salleté
  • salteé
  • slaeté
  • ssaleté

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of saleté - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

asleté2saelté2salete1saletté1saleét2salleté1salteé2slaeté2
Edit distance from "saleté"

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 "saleté"?
"saleté" is spelled S-A-L-E-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \sal.te\.
What does "saleté" mean?
As a noun, "saleté" means: État de ce qui est sale, malpropre.
What words are commonly confused with "saleté"?
"saleté" is commonly confused with "salt", "santé", "salle". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "saleté"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "saleté" is \sal.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "saleté" come from?
"saleté" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list