saloir
French, noun\sa.lwaʁ\
saloir is a French masculine noun meaning “salting tub” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Récipient de bois dans lequel on met le sel”.
What does saloir mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesalting tub
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Récipient de bois dans lequel on met le sel. 2. Récipient, communément de bois, destiné à recevoir les viandes qu’on veut saler, ou encore le beurre à saler.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of saloir
- saloirs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce saloir?
- \sa.lwaʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is saloir in French?
saloir appears about once in every 35 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).