Salonique
\sa.lɔ.nik\
The verdict
“Salonique” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,585. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,585
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Thessalonique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salonique · Salonique · French
Salonique · rank #36,585 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #36,585
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH saignements
Nearest frequency peer: saignements (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Salonique »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- saignement
saignement
63,418 corpus weight
- saignements
saignements
63,417 corpus weight
- Salonique
Salonique
63,416 corpus weight
- sandwiches
sandwiches
63,415 corpus weight
- scala
scala
63,414 corpus weight
- serrait
serrait
63,413 corpus weight
What this shows « Salonique » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Salonique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sa.lɔ.nik\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #36,585 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Salonique »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Salonique (IPA \sa.lɔ.nik\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #36,585 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Thessalonique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Salonique, with forms such as "aslonique", "sallonique", and "salnoique". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "satanique", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Salonique, spelled S-A-L-O-N-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Thessalonique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Salonique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Poisson pourri de Salonique Long collier des sommeils affreux D’yeux arrachés à coup de pique Ta mère fit un pet foireux Et tu naquis de sa colique.
Bravo zoulou à tour de contrôle: retournons à la base… j’ai une crêpe collée à mon pare-brise, et je ne veux pas voir ça jusqu’à Salonique!
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aslonique
- sallonique
- salnoique
- saloinque
- saloniqeu
- saloniqque
- saloniuqe
- salonnique
- salonqiue
- saolnique
- slaonique
- ssalonique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Salonique - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Salonique", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).