salle de lecture

/\sal də lɛk.tyʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“salle de lecture” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
16
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Espace aménagé dans une bibliothèque ou un service d’archives permettant la consultation des documents sur place.

Key facts for salle de lecture
PropertyValue
Headwordsalle de lecture
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sal də lɛk.tyʁ\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “salle de lecture” sits in French frequency

salle de lecture falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for salle de lecture is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sal də lɛk.tyʁ\. 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: "Espace aménagé dans une bibliothèque ou un service d’archives permettant la consultation des documents sur place.".

No misspelling variants are generated for salle de lecture in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 lecture, spelled S-A-L-L-E- -D-E- -L-E-C-T-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Espace aménagé dans une bibliothèque ou un service d’archives permettant la consultation des documents sur place.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "salle de lecture"?
"salle de lecture" is spelled S-A-L-L-E- -D-E- -L-E-C-T-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sal də lɛk.tyʁ\.
What does "salle de lecture" mean?
As a noun, "salle de lecture" means: Espace aménagé dans une bibliothèque ou un service d’archives permettant la consultation des documents sur place.
How do you pronounce "salle de lecture"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "salle de lecture" is \sal də lɛk.tyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "salle de lecture" come from?
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Using “salle de lecture”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is S-A-L-L-E- -D-E- -L-E-C-T-U-R-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \sal də lɛk.tyʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.