salle
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sal\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #700 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Pièce d’une habitation ouverte aux visiteurs.
- 2Pièce de cette habitation à usage particulier : → voir salle d’eau, salle à manger et …
- 3Espace pouvant recevoir plusieurs personnes pour une activité particulière : → voir salle de réunion
- 4Lieu de regroupement provisoire. → voir salle d’attente, salle des pas perdus et …
- 5Espace organisé pour cette activité particulière. → voir salle de conférence, salle de cinéma, salle de bal et …
- 6Espace regroupant une collection d’objets : → voir salle d’armes, salle de jeux, salle des gabarits et …
- 7Espace naturel souterrain de grande dimension.
- 8Lieu couvert par une végétation d’arbres.
- 9Partie où sont installés les spectateurs, par opposition à la scène où se produisent les artistes.
- 10Public présent assistant à cette activité.
- 11Partie où sont installés les clients d’un établissement de restauration, par opposition aux cuisines.
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"
Frequency rank: #700 in French
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Nearby French words
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