Salima
\sa.li.ma\
The verdict
“Salima” is uncommon French (frequency #82,447 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,447
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salima · Salima · French
Salima · rank #82,447 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,447
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Salerno
Nearest frequency peer: Salerno (-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 « Salima »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sablières
sablières
17,558 corpus weight
- sacralité
sacralité
17,557 corpus weight
- saisines
saisines
17,556 corpus weight
- Salerno
Salerno
17,555 corpus weight
- Salima
Salima
17,554 corpus weight
- sango
sango
17,552 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Salima » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Salima |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sa.li.ma\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,447 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Salima » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Salima is uncommon French at frequency #82,447 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \sa.li.ma\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Salima has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Salima, spelled S-A-L-I-M-A.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Salima appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Salima est superbe, hyper-séduisante.
C’est pourquoi « il faut veiller à bien utiliser l’intelligence artificielle », alerte Salima Benhamou, économiste du travail chez France Stratégie, pour qui cet outil fera partie intégrante de notre environnement de travail dans les années à venir, notamment via l’intelligence artificielle générative, comme ChatGPT.
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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