salle de bains

/\sal də bɛ̃\/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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similar word pairs

salle de bains is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pièce d’une habitation, comportant une baignoire ou une douche, et réservée pour se laver et se baigner. Pronounced \sal də bɛ̃\.

Key facts for salle de bains
PropertyValue
Headwordsalle de bains
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sal də bɛ̃\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

salle de bains is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for salle de bains is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sal də bɛ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pièce d’une habitation, comportant une baignoire ou une douche, et réservée pour se laver et se baigner.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for salle de bains in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 de bains, spelled S-A-L-L-E- -D-E- -B-A-I-N-S, 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, comportant une baignoire ou une douche, et réservée pour se laver et se baigner.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "salle de bains"?
"salle de bains" is spelled S-A-L-L-E- -D-E- -B-A-I-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \sal də bɛ̃\.
What does "salle de bains" mean?
As a noun, "salle de bains" means: Pièce d’une habitation, comportant une baignoire ou une douche, et réservée pour se laver et se baigner.
How do you pronounce "salle de bains"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "salle de bains" is \sal də bɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "salle de bains" come from?
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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.