salo
\sa.lo\
The verdict
“salo” is uncommon French (frequency #51,117 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,117
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de salaud.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salo · salo · French
salo · rank #51,117 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,117
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH salariaux
Nearest frequency peer: salariaux (-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 « salo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- révisées
révisées
48,888 corpus weight
- rôtie
rôtie
48,887 corpus weight
- salariaux
salariaux
48,885 corpus weight
- salo
salo
48,884 corpus weight
- Samarie
Samarie
48,882 corpus weight
- sarkozystes
sarkozystes
48,880 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « salo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.lo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #51,117 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « salo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
salo is uncommon French at frequency #51,117 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.lo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de salaud.".
salo has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is salo, spelled S-A-L-O.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de salaud.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how salo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gloussant, Jenny se dressa sur la pointe des pieds pour l’embrasser à son tour. — Ted Stratton, vous n’êtes qu’un débauché. — Ça c’est vrai. Ma moralité est déplorable. Je suis un salo… — Ted !
C’est vrai, c’est un salo, tous ces morts et tout. N’empêche Kel bonheur de marcher dans Paris ce matin.^([sic])
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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