salud
\ˈsɑː.lyt\
The verdict
“salud” is uncommon French (frequency #95,299 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,299
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Salut, salutation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salud · salud · French
salud · rank #95,299 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,299
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sandie
Nearest frequency peer: Sandie (+2 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 « salud »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sacrilèges
sacrilèges
4,707 corpus weight
- salud
salud
4,702 corpus weight
- Sandie
Sandie
4,700 corpus weight
- sapée
sapée
4,698 corpus weight
- Saskatchewa…
Saskatchewanais
4,697 corpus weight
- saturent
saturent
4,696 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « salud » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salud |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈsɑː.lyt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #95,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « salud » en français
Rare enough to double-check
salud is uncommon French at frequency #95,299 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈsɑː.lyt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Salut, salutation.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for salud, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is salud, spelled S-A-L-U-D.
Definition
- 1Salut, salutation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how salud appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lavarit dʼezi emaocʼh o pourmen dre ar vro hag ocʼh deut, en eur dremen, da renta dʼimp eur salud.
An Aotrou Maer a savas hag a lavaras d’ar brederien, Breizhiz, Gallaoued, Saozon, en doa da reiñ dezho « Saludoù karantezus Kelted Ribloù an Danub ».
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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