salure
\sa.lyʁ\
The verdict
“salure” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de ce qui est salé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salure · salure · French
salure · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.lyʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « salure » en français
Rare enough to double-check
salure is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.lyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Caractère de ce qui est salé.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for salure, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is salure, spelled S-A-L-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Caractère de ce qui est salé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how salure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La salure en est beaucoup plus forte que celle de la mer, et elle produit sur les lèvres l’effet d’une forte solution d’alun.
En 1601, 1620, 1627, 1677 le parlement de Paris la renouvelait par des arrêts successifs et fixait le prix du langueyage et la responsabilité des langueyeurs ; mais il autorisait, dans le premier de ces arrêts, la vente de la viande ladre après une salure de quarante jours.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.