salla
/ˈsɑlːɑ/
The verdict
“salla” is uncommon French (frequency #88,073 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,073
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sein, giron.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salla · salla · French
salla · rank #88,073 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,073
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH samoan
Nearest frequency peer: samoan (+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 « salla »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sadomasochi…
sadomasochisme
11,931 corpus weight
- sahariens
sahariens
11,930 corpus weight
- salla
salla
11,928 corpus weight
- samoan
samoan
11,927 corpus weight
- savonner
savonner
11,925 corpus weight
- saynète
saynète
11,924 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « salla » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salla |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsɑlːɑ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,073 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « salla » en français
Rare enough to double-check
salla is uncommon French at frequency #88,073 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsɑlːɑ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
salla has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is salla, spelled S-A-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Sein, giron.
- 2Brassée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how salla appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dánsun ja seavagiella ovttastuvvet elegánta čájáhusas, mii ovdan bukto luonddu čáppa salas.
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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