salutations
\sa.ly.ta.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“salutations” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,087. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,087
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de salutation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salutations · salutations · French
salutations · rank #22,087 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #22,087
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH safe
Nearest frequency peer: safe (-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 « salutations »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- révocation
révocation
77,918 corpus weight
- rêvais
rêvais
77,917 corpus weight
- safe
safe
77,915 corpus weight
- salutations
salutations
77,914 corpus weight
- sami
sami
77,913 corpus weight
- samouraï
samouraï
77,912 corpus weight
What this shows « salutations » 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 | salutations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.ly.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #22,087 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « salutations »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around salutations (IPA \sa.ly.ta.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,087 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de salutation.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for salutations, with forms such as "aslutations", "sallutations", and "saltuations". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "salutation", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is salutations, spelled S-A-L-U-T-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de salutation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how salutations appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pris ensemble, les salutations et les adieux sont des parenthèses rituelles qui enferment un débordement d’activité conjointe, des signes de ponctuation en quelque sorte.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aslutations
- sallutations
- saltuations
- saluattions
- salutaitons
- salutatinos
- salutationns
- salutationss
- salutatiosn
- salutatoins
- salutattions
- saluttaions
- saluttations
- saultations
- slautations
- ssalutations
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of salutations - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).