salon de lecture
Letters
16 characters
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\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salon de lecture |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.lɔ̃ də lɛk.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Lieu où, moyennant une rétribution, on lisait sur place ou l’on emprunte des journaux et des livres, au XVIIIᵉ et au XIXᵉ siècle.
- 2Endroit analogue à un salon et prévu pour la lecture.
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