salto
\sal.to\
The verdict
“salto” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,999. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,999
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Saut périlleux : saut au cours duquel le corps réalise dans l'espace un tour complet autour de son axe horizontal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salto · salto · French
salto · rank #39,999 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,999
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH salafisme
Nearest frequency peer: salafisme (-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 « salto »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sacrifiant
sacrifiant
60,005 corpus weight
- sagas
sagas
60,004 corpus weight
- salafisme
salafisme
60,003 corpus weight
- salto
salto
60,002 corpus weight
- Salvini
Salvini
60,001 corpus weight
- Samaritain
Samaritain
60,000 corpus weight
What this shows « salto » 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 | salto |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sal.to\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #39,999 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « salto »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around salto (IPA \sal.to\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,999 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Saut périlleux : saut au cours duquel le corps réalise dans l'espace un tour complet autour de son axe horizontal.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for salto, with forms such as "aslto", "sallto", and "salot". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sat", "são", "sto", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 salto, spelled S-A-L-T-O.
Definition
- 1Saut périlleux : saut au cours duquel le corps réalise dans l'espace un tour complet autour de son axe horizontal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how salto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais en rebondissant, elle ne réussit pas à exécuter un salto pour repartir dans l’autre sens.
Pierre Falardeau, qui a passé toute sa carrière à analyser, à dénoncer et à ridiculiser notre réflexe de colonisés, doit faire des doubles saltos arrière dans sa tombe.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aslto
- sallto
- salot
- saltto
- satlo
- slato
- ssalto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of salto - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).