salon de coiffure
\sa.lɔ̃ də kwa.fyʁ\
The verdict
“salon de coiffure” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Établissement où des clients viennent se faire coiffer par des professionnels.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salon de coiffure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.lɔ̃ də kwa.fyʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “salon de coiffure” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for salon de coiffure is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sa.lɔ̃ də kwa.fyʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Établissement où des clients viennent se faire coiffer par des professionnels.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for salon de coiffure in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is salon de coiffure, spelled S-A-L-O-N- -D-E- -C-O-I-F-F-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Établissement où des clients viennent se faire coiffer par des professionnels.
This word in other languages
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Using “salon de coiffure”
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- The one correct French spelling is S-A-L-O-N- -D-E- -C-O-I-F-F-U-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.