salon de lecture

/\sa.lɔ̃ də lɛk.tyʁ\/ noun

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Language

French

word origin

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salon de lecture is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lieu où, moyennant une rétribution, on lisait sur place ou l’on emprunte des journaux et des livres, au XVIIIᵉ et au XIXᵉ siècle. Pronounced \sa.lɔ̃ də lɛk.tyʁ\.

Key facts for salon de lecture
PropertyValue
Headwordsalon de lecture
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sa.lɔ̃ də lɛk.tyʁ\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

salon de lecture is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for salon de lecture is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sa.lɔ̃ də lɛk.tyʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for salon de lecture in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 de lecture, spelled S-A-L-O-N- -D-E- -L-E-C-T-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lieu où, moyennant une rétribution, on lisait sur place ou l’on emprunte des journaux et des livres, au XVIIIᵉ et au XIXᵉ siècle.
  2. 2
    Endroit analogue à un salon et prévu pour la lecture.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "salon de lecture"?
"salon de lecture" is spelled S-A-L-O-N- -D-E- -L-E-C-T-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.lɔ̃ də lɛk.tyʁ\.
What does "salon de lecture" mean?
As a noun, "salon de lecture" means: Lieu où, moyennant une rétribution, on lisait sur place ou l’on emprunte des journaux et des livres, au XVIIIᵉ et au XIXᵉ siècle.
How do you pronounce "salon de lecture"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "salon de lecture" is \sa.lɔ̃ də lɛk.tyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "salon de lecture" come from?
"salon de lecture" 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.