salish des détroits

noun

The verdict

“salish des détroits” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
19
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Langue amérindienne de la famille des langues salishes de la côte centrales.

Key facts for salish des détroits
PropertyValue
Headwordsalish des détroits
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “salish des détroits” sits in French frequency

salish des détroits falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for salish des détroits is 19 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Langue amérindienne de la famille des langues salishes de la côte centrales.".

No misspelling variants are generated for salish des détroits in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is salish des détroits, spelled S-A-L-I-S-H- -D-E-S- -D-É-T-R-O-I-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Langue amérindienne de la famille des langues salishes de la côte centrales.

Synonyms

salish des détroits du Nord

This word in other languages

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "salish des détroits"?
"salish des détroits" is spelled S-A-L-I-S-H- -D-E-S- -D-É-T-R-O-I-T-S.
What does "salish des détroits" mean?
As a noun, "salish des détroits" means: Langue amérindienne de la famille des langues salishes de la côte centrales.
What language does "salish des détroits" come from?
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Using “salish des détroits”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is S-A-L-I-S-H- -D-E-S- -D-É-T-R-O-I-T-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.

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