salpêtrière

\sal.pɛ.tʁi.jɛʁ\

/\sal.pɛ.tʁi.jɛʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“salpêtrière” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,743. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#34,743
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
17
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu où l’on faisait le salpêtre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-salpetriere · salpêtrière · French

salpêtrière · rank #34,743 · 17 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #34,743
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 17 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH salmon

Nearest frequency peer: salmon (-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 « salpêtrière »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « salpêtrière » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for salpêtrière
PropertyValue
Headwordsalpêtrière
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sal.pɛ.tʁi.jɛʁ\
Letters11
Frequency rank#34,743
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « salpêtrière »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).salpêtrièrese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « salmon » (#34,742), « saturée » (#34,744), « rêverie » (#34,741). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « salpêtrière » est au #34,743. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 17 spelling variants around salpêtrière (IPA \sal.pɛ.tʁi.jɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,743 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for salpêtrière, with forms such as "aslpêtrière", "sallpêtrière", and "salpetriere". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is salpêtrière, spelled S-A-L-P-Ê-T-R-I-È-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lieu où l’on faisait le salpêtre.
  2. 2
    Ouvrière qui travaille à faire du salpêtre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how salpêtrière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Une salpêtrière exploitée à Chalonnes (Maine-et-Loire) alimente un vaste réseau de moulins à poudre pour la fabrication des munitions.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aslpêtrière
  • sallpêtrière
  • salpetriere
  • salppêtrière
  • salptêrière
  • salpêrtière
  • salpêtirère
  • salpêtrirèe
  • salpêtrièer
  • salpêtrièrre
  • salpêtrrière
  • salpêtrèire
  • salpêttrière
  • salêptrière
  • saplêtrière
  • slapêtrière
  • ssalpêtrière

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of salpêtrière - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

aslpêtrière2sallpêtrière1salpetriere2salppêtrière1salptêrière2salpêrtière2salpêtirère2salpêtrirèe2
Edit distance from "salpêtrière"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "salpêtrière"?
"salpêtrière" is spelled S-A-L-P-Ê-T-R-I-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sal.pɛ.tʁi.jɛʁ\.
What does "salpêtrière" mean?
As a noun, "salpêtrière" means: Lieu où l’on faisait le salpêtre.
What are common misspellings of "salpêtrière"?
Common misspellings include "aslpêtrière", "sallpêtrière", "salpetriere", "salppêtrière", "salptêrière". The correct spelling is "salpêtrière".
How do you pronounce "salpêtrière"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "salpêtrière" is \sal.pɛ.tʁi.jɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "salpêtrière", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

réfléchisse#34,733pédiatrique#34,703préviennent#34,700préconisent#34,697

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).

retranchés17 variantsstructurés17 variantstotalitaires17 variantsplafonnement17 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list