saluer
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,922
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
saluer is aFrenchverb. It means: Donner à quelqu’un une marque de civilité, de déférence ou de respect, en l’abordant, en le rencontrant, en le quittant. Pronounced \sa.lɥe\. It ranks #8,922 in French word frequency. Often confused with suer and salut.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saluer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sa.lɥe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,922 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for saluer is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sa.lɥe\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,922 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for saluer, with forms such as "asluer", "saleur", and "salluer". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "suer", "salut", "salve", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is saluer, spelled S-A-L-U-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Donner à quelqu’un une marque de civilité, de déférence ou de respect, en l’abordant, en le rencontrant, en le quittant.
- 2Dans certaines cérémonies, donner les marques de respect qu’on doit à certaines choses.
- 3Donner les marques de civilité, de déférence, de respect qui sont en usage dans les troupes de terre et dans la marine.
- 4Tirer avec ses armes.
- 5Proclamer, nommer par acclamation.
- 6Accueillir favorablement, souligner dans un esprit de reconnaissance et de félicitations.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asluer,saleur,salluer,saluerr,salure,sauler,slauer,ssaluer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "saluer"
Frequency rank: #8,922 in French
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