salle d’asile
\sal d‿a.zil\
The verdict
“salle d’asile” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancien nom de l’école maternelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salle-d-asile · salle d’asile · French
salle d’asile · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salle d’asile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sal d‿a.zil\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « salle d’asile » en français
Rare enough to double-check
salle d’asile is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sal d‿a.zil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancien nom de l’école maternelle.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for salle d’asile in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is salle d’asile, spelled S-A-L-L-E- -D-’-A-S-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Ancien nom de l’école maternelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how salle d’asile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si dans les textes sur la « salle d’asile », nom donné à la maternelle au XIXᵉ siècle, les préoccupations hygiéniques et morales vont de pair avec l’instruction, le tout premier programme de l’école maternelle de la IIIe République (1882) la met au centre pour préparer les enfants à « recevoir avec fruit l’instruction primaire » ; un programme « ambitieux…
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