saluaient
\sa.lɥɛ\
The verdict
“saluaient” is uncommon French (frequency #91,142 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,142
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de saluer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-saluaient · saluaient · French
saluaient · rank #91,142 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,142
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH salubre
Nearest frequency peer: salubre (+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 « saluaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sacrificate…
sacrificateurs
8,863 corpus weight
- sadomasochi…
sadomasochiste
8,862 corpus weight
- sahélien
sahélien
8,861 corpus weight
- saluaient
saluaient
8,859 corpus weight
- salubre
salubre
8,858 corpus weight
- samaras
samaras
8,857 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « saluaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saluaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sa.lɥɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #91,142 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « saluaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
saluaient is uncommon French at frequency #91,142 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sa.lɥɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de saluer.".
saluaient has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is saluaient, spelled S-A-L-U-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de saluer.
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 "saluaient"?
What does "saluaient" mean?
How do you pronounce "saluaient"?
What language does "saluaient" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "saluaient", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).