salop
\sa.lo\
The verdict
“salop” is uncommon French (frequency #65,503 among 394,209 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,503
- frequency rank, French
- 394,209
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Celui qui agit de façon immorale, méprisable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salop · salop · French
salop · rank #65,503 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,503
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 394,209
- PHOTO-FINISH Salers
Nearest frequency peer: Salers (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “salop”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- saisissants
saisissants
34,501 corpus weight
- Sakamoto
Sakamoto
34,500 corpus weight
- Salers
Salers
34,499 corpus weight
- salop
salop
34,498 corpus weight
- sane
sane
34,497 corpus weight
- savonnerie
savonnerie
34,495 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “salop” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salop |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.lo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,503 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “salop” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
salop is uncommon French at frequency #65,503 among 394,209 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.lo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui agit de façon immorale, méprisable.".
No misspelling variants are generated for salop in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is salop, spelled S-A-L-O-P.
Definition
- 1Celui qui agit de façon immorale, méprisable.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.