Salinger
The verdict
“Salinger” is uncommon French (frequency #60,362 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,362
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salinger · Salinger · French
Salinger · rank #60,362 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,362
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sablière
Nearest frequency peer: sablière (-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 « Salinger »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- réussirait
réussirait
39,642 corpus weight
- sablière
sablière
39,640 corpus weight
- Salinger
Salinger
39,639 corpus weight
- salute
salute
39,638 corpus weight
- saquer
saquer
39,637 corpus weight
- Sassuolo
Sassuolo
39,636 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Salinger » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Salinger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,362 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Salinger » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Salinger is uncommon French at frequency #60,362 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Salinger, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Salinger, spelled S-A-L-I-N-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Salinger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Garcia Marquez, Faulkner, Dostoïevski, Steinbeck, Salinger, Brontë, Wolfe, pour le prix d’un paquet de chips…
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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