saluait
\sa.lɥɛ\
The verdict
“saluait” is uncommon French (frequency #59,625 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,625
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de saluer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-saluait · saluait · French
saluait · rank #59,625 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,625
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH saltimbanque
Nearest frequency peer: saltimbanque (-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 « saluait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- salissent
salissent
40,379 corpus weight
- salivaires
salivaires
40,378 corpus weight
- saltimbanque
saltimbanque
40,377 corpus weight
- saluait
saluait
40,376 corpus weight
- sarcastiques
sarcastiques
40,374 corpus weight
- satanistes
satanistes
40,373 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « saluait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saluait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sa.lɥɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,625 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « saluait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
saluait is uncommon French at frequency #59,625 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sa.lɥɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de saluer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for saluait, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 saluait, spelled S-A-L-U-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de saluer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how saluait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dominique Schelcher, le PDG du groupe Système U, saluait il y a peu cet engagement au micro de France Info : « c’est son magasin, son territoire, et elle y est très attachée. »
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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