salm
\ˈsalm\
The verdict
“salm” is uncommon French (frequency #62,617 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,617
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Psaume.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salm · salm · French
salm · rank #62,617 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,617
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH salinas
Nearest frequency peer: salinas (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « salm »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- salants
salants
37,387 corpus weight
- salies
salies
37,386 corpus weight
- salinas
salinas
37,385 corpus weight
- salm
salm
37,384 corpus weight
- sangha
sangha
37,383 corpus weight
- Saracens
Saracens
37,382 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « salm » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salm |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈsalm\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #62,617 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « salm » en français
Rare enough to double-check
salm is uncommon French at frequency #62,617 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈsalm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Psaume.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for salm, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is salm, spelled S-A-L-M.
Definition
- 1Psaume.
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.
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