Sallanches
\sa.lɑ̃ʃ\
The verdict
“Sallanches” is uncommon French (frequency #79,716 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,716
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Haute-Savoie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sallanches · Sallanches · French
Sallanches · rank #79,716 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,716
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH salad
Nearest frequency peer: salad (-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 « Sallanches »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sah
sah
20,289 corpus weight
- saha
saha
20,288 corpus weight
- Saire
Saire
20,287 corpus weight
- salad
salad
20,286 corpus weight
- Sallanches
Sallanches
20,285 corpus weight
- saluez
saluez
20,284 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Sallanches » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sallanches |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sa.lɑ̃ʃ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #79,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Sallanches » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Sallanches is uncommon French at frequency #79,716 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \sa.lɑ̃ʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Sallanches in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Sallanches, spelled S-A-L-L-A-N-C-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Haute-Savoie.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département de la Haute-Savoie.
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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