Sally

name

The verdict

“Sally” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,233. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#16,233
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sally · Sally · French

Sally · rank #16,233 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,233
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH répit

Nearest frequency peer: répit (-1 rank slots)

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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Sally »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Sally » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Sally vs say
40% similar
Sally vs sly
40% similar
Sally vs salt
40% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Sally
PropertyValue
HeadwordSally
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters5
Frequency rank#16,233
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Sally »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Sallyse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « répit » (#16,232), « semé » (#16,234), « réjouis » (#16,231). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « Sally » est au #16,233. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around Sally, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #16,233 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom féminin.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sally, with forms such as "aslly", "sallyy", and "saly". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "say", "sly", "salt", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Sally, spelled S-A-L-L-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prénom féminin.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Sally appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Sally Poppy sera-t-elle pendue sur la place publique ?

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aslly
  • sallyy
  • saly
  • salyl
  • slaly
  • ssally

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sally - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

aslly2sallyy1saly1salyl2slaly2ssally1
Edit distance from "Sally"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Sally"?
"Sally" is spelled S-A-L-L-Y.
What does "Sally" mean?
As a proper noun, "Sally" means: Prénom féminin.
What words are commonly confused with "Sally"?
"Sally" is commonly confused with "say", "sly", "salt". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Sally" come from?
"Sally" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Sally", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list