salon d’attente
\sa.lɔ̃ d‿a.tɑ̃t\
The verdict
“salon d’attente” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu où l’on attend son tour, dans un service public, chez un médecin, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salon-d-attente · salon d’attente · French
salon d’attente · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salon d’attente |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.lɔ̃ d‿a.tɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « salon d’attente » en français
Rare enough to double-check
salon d’attente is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.lɔ̃ d‿a.tɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lieu où l’on attend son tour, dans un service public, chez un médecin, etc.".
salon d’attente doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is salon d’attente, spelled S-A-L-O-N- -D-’-A-T-T-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Lieu où l’on attend son tour, dans un service public, chez un médecin, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how salon d’attente appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
– J’en ai deux qui couchent dans le salon d’attente, par terre. Le docteur se frottait les mains, des mains toutes roses à force d’être lavées cent fois par jour.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.