salopette
\sa.lɔ.pɛt\
The verdict
“salopette” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,861. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,861
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vêtement de travail, à plastron, qu’on porte par-dessus ses vêtements pour éviter de les salir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salopette · salopette · French
salopette · rank #45,861 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #45,861
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH salit
Nearest frequency peer: salit (-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 « salopette »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sachions
sachions
54,143 corpus weight
- saignant
saignant
54,142 corpus weight
- salit
salit
54,141 corpus weight
- salopette
salopette
54,140 corpus weight
- sangsue
sangsue
54,139 corpus weight
- saturnin
saturnin
54,138 corpus weight
What this shows « salopette » 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 | salopette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.lɔ.pɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #45,861 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « salopette »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around salopette (IPA \sa.lɔ.pɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,861 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for salopette, with forms such as "aslopette", "sallopette", and "saloeptte". 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, "saloperie", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is salopette, spelled S-A-L-O-P-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Vêtement de travail, à plastron, qu’on porte par-dessus ses vêtements pour éviter de les salir.
- 2Pantalon à bretelles et à plastron.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how salopette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Salopette de jardinier.
[Il] portait des vêtements sales, une salopette en toile bleue unie et un bourgeron bleu rayé.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aslopette
- sallopette
- saloeptte
- salopete
- salopetet
- saloppette
- saloptete
- salpoette
- saolpette
- slaopette
- ssalopette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of salopette - 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
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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 (11 here; floor ≥5).