salutaire
\sa.ly.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“salutaire” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,362. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,362
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est utile, avantageux pour la conservation de la vie, de la santé, des biens, de l’honneur, pour le salut de l’âme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salutaire · salutaire · French
salutaire · rank #23,362 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,362
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH S1
Nearest frequency peer: S1 (-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 « salutaire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rétablit
rétablit
76,642 corpus weight
- S1
S1
76,640 corpus weight
- salutaire
salutaire
76,639 corpus weight
- Salvatore
Salvatore
76,638 corpus weight
- scellés
scellés
76,637 corpus weight
- sculpteurs
sculpteurs
76,636 corpus weight
What this shows « salutaire » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salutaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sa.ly.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #23,362 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « salutaire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around salutaire (IPA \sa.ly.tɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #23,362 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est utile, avantageux pour la conservation de la vie, de la santé, des biens, de l’honneur, pour le salut de l’âme.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for salutaire, with forms such as "aslutaire", "sallutaire", and "saltuaire". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "solitaire", "sanitaire", "statutaire", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is salutaire, spelled S-A-L-U-T-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est utile, avantageux pour la conservation de la vie, de la santé, des biens, de l’honneur, pour le salut de l’âme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how salutaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsque cette discussion médicale fut terminée, le paysan saxon demanda humblement qu’on lui restituât le remède qui lui avait été si salutaire.
…toutefois comme il ne voulait pas abandonner dans les eaux de la tribulation le jeune paroissien de son confrère, il lui donna quelques salutaires encouragements.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aslutaire
- sallutaire
- saltuaire
- saluatire
- salutaier
- salutairre
- salutarie
- salutiare
- saluttaire
- saultaire
- slautaire
- ssalutaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of salutaire - 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.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).