salut
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,377
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
salut is aFrenchnoun. It means: Fait d’être sauvé de la mort, d’un danger, d’échapper à une situation désagréable. Pronounced \sa.ly\. It ranks #1,377 in French word frequency. Often confused with sat and slt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.ly\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,377 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for salut is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sa.ly\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,377 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for salut, with forms such as "aslut", "sallut", and "saltu". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sat", "slt", "Sau", 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 salut, spelled S-A-L-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fait d’être sauvé de la mort, d’un danger, d’échapper à une situation désagréable.
- 2(Concernant une collectivité) Fait d’échapper à la disparition.
- 3Fait d’échapper à la damnation éternelle.
- 4(Sens courant) Marque de politesse (geste et parole) qu’on adresse à une personne qu’on rencontre. Action de saluer ou de dire bonjour, bonsoir en utilisant le mot salut.
- 5Marques de civilité, de déférence ou de respect qui sont en usage dans les troupes de terre et dans la marine.
- 6Cérémonie de la bénédiction du Saint Sacrement.
- 7Acte habituel de remercier le public à la fin d’un spectacle.
- 8Nom familier donné au silure (poisson).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aslut,sallut,saltu,salutt,slaut,ssalut
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for salut
Misspelling Variants of "salut"
Frequency rank: #1,377 in French
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