saloperie
\sa.lɔ.pʁi\
The verdict
“saloperie” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,059. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,059
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Saleté, grande malpropreté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-saloperie · saloperie · French
saloperie · rank #18,059 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,059
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH saches
Nearest frequency peer: saches (-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 « saloperie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- réveillon
réveillon
81,945 corpus weight
- révérend
révérend
81,944 corpus weight
- saches
saches
81,943 corpus weight
- saloperie
saloperie
81,942 corpus weight
- sand
sand
81,941 corpus weight
- sauces
sauces
81,940 corpus weight
What this shows « saloperie » 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 | saloperie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.lɔ.pʁi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #18,059 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « saloperie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around saloperie (IPA \sa.lɔ.pʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,059 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for saloperie, with forms such as "asloperie", "salloperie", and "saloeprie". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "salopette", "saloperies", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is saloperie, spelled S-A-L-O-P-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Saleté, grande malpropreté.
- 2Propos ordurier.
- 3Objet méprisable, sans intérêt, nul.
- 4Traîtrise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how saloperie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tu nettoieras tes saloperies.
Malheureusement, si le désir l’avait poussée à « dire des saloperies » comme elle m’en avait prévenu, ces mêmes saloperies avaient refroidi le désir qu’elle m’inspirait.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asloperie
- salloperie
- saloeprie
- salopeire
- saloperei
- saloperrie
- salopperie
- salopreie
- salpoerie
- saolperie
- slaoperie
- ssaloperie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of saloperie - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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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).