salon

/\sa.lɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,607

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

salon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pièce, dans un appartement, dans une maison, qui est ordinairement plus grande et plus ornée que les autres, et qui sert à recevoir les visites. Pronounced \sa.lɔ̃\. It ranks #1,607 in French word frequency. Often confused with son and san.

Key facts for salon
PropertyValue
Headwordsalon
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sa.lɔ̃\
Letters5
Frequency rank#1,607
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of salon in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for salon is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sa.lɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,607 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for salon, with forms such as "aslon", "sallon", and "salno". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "son", "san", "são", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 salon, spelled S-A-L-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pièce, dans un appartement, dans une maison, qui est ordinairement plus grande et plus ornée que les autres, et qui sert à recevoir les visites.
  2. 2
    La bonne compagnie ; les gens du monde.
  3. 3
    Lieu où se fait l’exposition annuelle des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, gravure, etc., des artistes vivants.
  4. 4
    Cette exposition elle-même.
  5. 5
    Les comptes-rendus de l’exposition.
  6. 6
    Toutes sortes d’expositions périodiques, ordinairement annuelles.
  7. 7
    Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)…

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aslon,sallon,salno,salonn,saoln,slaon,ssalon

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for salon

Misspelling Variants of "salon"

aslon5sallon6salno5salonn6saoln5slaon5ssalon6
Misspelling Variants of "salon"

Frequency rank: #1,607 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "salon"?
"salon" is spelled S-A-L-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.lɔ̃\.
What does "salon" mean?
As a noun, "salon" means: Pièce, dans un appartement, dans une maison, qui est ordinairement plus grande et plus ornée que les autres, et qui sert à recevoir les visites.
What words are commonly confused with "salon"?
"salon" is commonly confused with "son", "san", "são". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "salon"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "salon" is \sa.lɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "salon" come from?
"salon" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.