salvation
\sal.va.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“salvation” is uncommon French (frequency #84,286 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,286
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de procurer le salut spirituel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salvation · salvation · French
salvation · rank #84,286 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,286
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Salvadorien
Nearest frequency peer: Salvadorien (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « salvation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Sabran
Sabran
15,718 corpus weight
- Sadek
Sadek
15,717 corpus weight
- Salvadorien
Salvadorien
15,716 corpus weight
- salvation
salvation
15,715 corpus weight
- Samain
Samain
15,714 corpus weight
- Samarkand
Samarkand
15,713 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « salvation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salvation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sal.va.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,286 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « salvation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
salvation is uncommon French at frequency #84,286 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sal.va.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de procurer le salut spirituel.".
Zero misspellings are on record for salvation in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is salvation, spelled S-A-L-V-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de procurer le salut spirituel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how salvation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est en quelque sorte en participant au perfectionnement de la matière, à la salvation de celle-ci, qu'il assure son propre salut.
Je pense encore qu’Internet représente le futur de l’humanité, que notre salvation passera par l’évolution d’un Homo Sapiens en Homo Collaborans, cellule d’un gigantesque être vivant dont la colonne vertébrale sera Internet.
Synonyms
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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