salto arrière
\sal.to a.ʁjɛʁ\
The verdict
“salto arrière” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Salto effectué vers l’arrière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salto-arriere · salto arrière · French
salto arrière · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salto arrière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sal.to a.ʁjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “salto arrière” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
salto arrière is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sal.to a.ʁjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Salto effectué vers l’arrière.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for salto arrière, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is salto arrière, spelled S-A-L-T-O- -A-R-R-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Salto effectué vers l’arrière.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.