salut et fraternité

\sa.ly ɛ fʁa.tɛʁ.ni.te\

/\sa.ly ɛ fʁa.tɛʁ.ni.te\/ intj

The verdict

“salut et fraternité” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an interjection - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
19
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Expression employée par les membres de la Convention pour se saluer, de vive voix ou par écrit.

Key facts for salut et fraternité
PropertyValue
Headwordsalut et fraternité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechInterjection
IPA\sa.ly ɛ fʁa.tɛʁ.ni.te\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “salut et fraternité” sits in French frequency

salut et fraternité falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for salut et fraternité is 19 letters long, classified as an interjection, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sa.ly ɛ fʁa.tɛʁ.ni.te\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for salut et fraternité in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 et fraternité, spelled S-A-L-U-T- -E-T- -F-R-A-T-E-R-N-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Expression employée par les membres de la Convention pour se saluer, de vive voix ou par écrit.
  2. 2
    Expression de salut employée par les libres-penseurs, les libertaires et certains syndicalistes.

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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "salut et fraternité"?
"salut et fraternité" is spelled S-A-L-U-T- -E-T- -F-R-A-T-E-R-N-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.ly ɛ fʁa.tɛʁ.ni.te\.
What does "salut et fraternité" mean?
As an interjection, "salut et fraternité" means: Expression employée par les membres de la Convention pour se saluer, de vive voix ou par écrit.
How do you pronounce "salut et fraternité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "salut et fraternité" is \sa.ly ɛ fʁa.tɛʁ.ni.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “salut et fraternité”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is S-A-L-U-T- -E-T- -F-R-A-T-E-R-N-I-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \sa.ly ɛ fʁa.tɛʁ.ni.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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