salut

\sa.ly\

/\sa.ly\/ noun

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The verdict

“salut” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,377. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,377
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fait d’être sauvé de la mort, d’un danger, d’échapper à une situation désagréable.

Corpus desk

Index FR-salut · salut · French

salut · rank #1,377 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,377
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH secondes

Nearest frequency peer: secondes (+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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « salut »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « salut » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

salut vs sat
60% similar
salut vs slt
60% similar
salut vs Sau
40% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for salut
PropertyValue
Headwordsalut
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sa.ly\
Letters5
Frequency rank#1,377
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « salut »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).salutse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « secondes » (#1,378), « rire » (#1,375), « servir » (#1,379). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « salut » est au #1,377. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around salut (IPA \sa.ly\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,377 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for salut, with forms such as "aslut", "sallut", and "saltu". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sat", "slt", "Sau", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is salut, spelled S-A-L-U-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fait d’être sauvé de la mort, d’un danger, d’échapper à une situation désagréable.
  2. 2
    (Concernant une collectivité) Fait d’échapper à la disparition.
  3. 3
    Fait d’échapper à la damnation éternelle.
  4. 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.
  5. 5
    Marques de civilité, de déférence ou de respect qui sont en usage dans les troupes de terre et dans la marine.
  6. 6
    Cérémonie de la bénédiction du Saint Sacrement.
  7. 7
    Acte habituel de remercier le public à la fin d’un spectacle.
  8. 8
    Nom familier donné au silure (poisson).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Les universitaires sont tous les mêmes, pensai- je. Hors de l’Université, point de salut. Et je sortis de la mesure où je m’étais tenu si difficilement pour manifester très haut mon orgueil de ma nouvelle situation.
  2. Privé de tout accommodement, […], le vice a peu de chance de séduire la vertu la plus chancelante. Elle s’en détourne avec horreur et trouve soudain dans cet instinctif revirement son équilibre et son salut.

This word in other languages

salvation(English)salvación(Español)Erlösung(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aslut
  • sallut
  • saltu
  • salutt
  • slaut
  • ssalut

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of salut - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

aslut2sallut1saltu2salutt1slaut2ssalut1
Edit distance from "salut"

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 "salut"?
"salut" is spelled S-A-L-U-T. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.ly\.
What does "salut" mean?
As a noun, "salut" means: Fait d’être sauvé de la mort, d’un danger, d’échapper à une situation désagréable.
What words are commonly confused with "salut"?
"salut" is commonly confused with "sat", "slt", "Sau". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "salut"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "salut" is \sa.ly\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "salut" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

pages#1,370ouvre#1,369front#1,393chaud#1,357

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

noms6 variantsvent6 variantsjeudi6 variantscafé6 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list