saletés
\sal.te\
The verdict
“saletés” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,001. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,001
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de saleté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-saletes · saletés · French
saletés · rank #33,001 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,001
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH saharienne
Nearest frequency peer: saharienne (-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 « saletés »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- S5
S5
67,003 corpus weight
- Saclay
Saclay
67,002 corpus weight
- saharienne
saharienne
67,001 corpus weight
- saletés
saletés
67,000 corpus weight
- salines
salines
66,999 corpus weight
- salopard
salopard
66,998 corpus weight
What this shows « saletés » 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 | saletés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sal.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,001 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « saletés »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around saletés (IPA \sal.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,001 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de saleté.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for saletés, with forms such as "asletés", "saeltés", and "saletes". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "salles", "salves", "salines", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is saletés, spelled S-A-L-E-T-É-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de saleté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how saletés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cet empoté de Delhomme, un rude serin, avec sa pose au bon travail et à la justice ! et cette pie-grièche de Fanny, toujours à se fâcher pour une vesse de travers, exigeant qu’on l’adorât comme une image, sans même s’apercevoir des saletés qu’elle faisait aux autres !
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asletés
- saeltés
- saletes
- saletsé
- salettés
- saletéss
- saleéts
- salletés
- salteés
- slaetés
- ssaletés
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of saletés - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).