Salou
The verdict
“Salou” is uncommon French (frequency #75,191 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,191
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salou · Salou · French
Salou · rank #75,191 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,191
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Salamanca
Nearest frequency peer: Salamanca (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Salou »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- réédités
réédités
24,815 corpus weight
- salaisons
salaisons
24,812 corpus weight
- Salamanca
Salamanca
24,811 corpus weight
- Salou
Salou
24,810 corpus weight
- sanctifier
sanctifier
24,807 corpus weight
- sanglotant
sanglotant
24,805 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Salou » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Salou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,191 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Salou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Salou is uncommon French at frequency #75,191 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Salou in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Salou, spelled S-A-L-O-U.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Salou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Violette Suquet-Salou est conceptrice-illustratrice.
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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