salubre

\sa.lybʁ\

/\sa.lybʁ\/ adj

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The verdict

“salubre” is uncommon French (frequency #91,143 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#91,143
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est favorable à la santé.

Corpus desk

Index FR-salubre · salubre · French

salubre · rank #91,143 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #91,143
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH saluaient

Nearest frequency peer: saluaient (-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 « salubre »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « salubre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for salubre
PropertyValue
Headwordsalubre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\sa.lybʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#91,143
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « salubre » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.salubretombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « saluaient » (#91,142), « samaras » (#91,144), « sahélien » (#91,140). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « salubre » est au #91,143. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

salubre is uncommon French at frequency #91,143 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sa.lybʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est favorable à la santé.".

salubre doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is salubre, spelled S-A-L-U-B-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est favorable à la santé.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Un air salubre.
  2. Une nourriture, un régime salubre.

Synonyms

sainsalutaire

Antonyms

insalubre

This word in other languages

salubrious(English)salubre(Español)gesund(Deutsch)

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 "salubre"?
"salubre" is spelled S-A-L-U-B-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.lybʁ\.
What does "salubre" mean?
As an adjective, "salubre" means: Qui est favorable à la santé.
How do you pronounce "salubre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "salubre" is \sa.lybʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "salubre" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

samaras#91,144révélez#91,135rémiges#91,131Rouvroy#91,122

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list