saloper
\sa.lɔ.pe\
The verdict
“saloper” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire un mauvais travail, bâcler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-saloper · saloper · French
saloper · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saloper |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sa.lɔ.pe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « saloper » en français
Rare enough to double-check
saloper is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \sa.lɔ.pe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
saloper doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is saloper, spelled S-A-L-O-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire un mauvais travail, bâcler.
- 2Salir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how saloper appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais je représentais mon pays, la France, hors de question de saloper le travail. Je limai Rachel, jouant de ses cordes vocales qui rendirent le son le plus troublant qui soit.
Heureusement, on ne les habillait jamais en dimanche qu’au dernier moment ; ils auraient salopé leurs habits propres aussi bien.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.