salut et fraternité
\sa.ly ɛ fʁa.tɛʁ.ni.te\
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salut et fraternité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \sa.ly ɛ fʁa.tɛʁ.ni.te\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “salut et fraternité” sits in French frequency
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
- 1Expression employée par les membres de la Convention pour se saluer, de vive voix ou par écrit.
- 2Expression 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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- 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.
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