salle

/\sal\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#700

in French word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

salle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pièce d’une habitation ouverte aux visiteurs. Pronounced \sal\. It ranks #700 in French word frequency. Often confused with Saxe and same.

Key facts for salle
PropertyValue
Headwordsalle
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sal\
Letters5
Frequency rank#700
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of salle in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for salle is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sal\. Corpus data places it at rank #700 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for salle, with forms such as "aslle", "sale", and "salel". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Saxe", "same", "save", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 salle, spelled S-A-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pièce d’une habitation ouverte aux visiteurs.
  2. 2
    Pièce de cette habitation à usage particulier : → voir salle d’eau, salle à manger et …
  3. 3
    Espace pouvant recevoir plusieurs personnes pour une activité particulière : → voir salle de réunion
  4. 4
    Lieu de regroupement provisoire. → voir salle d’attente, salle des pas perdus et …
  5. 5
    Espace organisé pour cette activité particulière. → voir salle de conférence, salle de cinéma, salle de bal et …
  6. 6
    Espace regroupant une collection d’objets : → voir salle d’armes, salle de jeux, salle des gabarits et …
  7. 7
    Espace naturel souterrain de grande dimension.
  8. 8
    Lieu couvert par une végétation d’arbres.
  9. 9
    Partie où sont installés les spectateurs, par opposition à la scène où se produisent les artistes.
  10. 10
    Public présent assistant à cette activité.
  11. 11
    Partie où sont installés les clients d’un établissement de restauration, par opposition aux cuisines.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aslle,sale,salel,slale,ssalle

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for salle

Misspelling Variants of "salle"

aslle5sale4salel5slale5ssalle6
Misspelling Variants of "salle"

Frequency rank: #700 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "salle"?
"salle" is spelled S-A-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sal\.
What does "salle" mean?
As a noun, "salle" means: Pièce d’une habitation ouverte aux visiteurs.
What words are commonly confused with "salle"?
"salle" is commonly confused with "Saxe", "same", "save". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "salle"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "salle" is \sal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "salle" come from?
"salle" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.