salinité
\sa.li.ni.te\
The verdict
“salinité” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,654. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,654
- frequency rank, French
- 394,209
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Quantité de sels dissous dans un liquide.
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 | salinité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.li.ni.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #43,654 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “salinité” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around salinité (IPA \sa.li.ni.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,654 among 394,209 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Quantité de sels dissous dans un liquide.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for salinité, with forms such as "aslinité", "sailnité", and "saliinté". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "solidité", "sainte", "saline", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is salinité, spelled S-A-L-I-N-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Quantité de sels dissous dans un liquide.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aslinité,sailnité,saliinté,salinite,salinitté,saliniét,salinnité,salintié,sallinité,salniité,slainité,ssalinité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of salinité - 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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Using “salinité”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-A-L-I-N-I-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sa.li.ni.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “solidité” - see the side-by-side comparison. salinité vs solidité
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.