saumon
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,783
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
saumon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Poisson de la famille des salmonidés dont la chair est très appréciée et qui remonte les rivières au moment du frai. Pronounced \so.mɔ̃\. Often confused with sumo and Simon.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saumon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \so.mɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,783 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for saumon is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \so.mɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,783 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for saumon, with forms such as "asumon", "samuon", and "saummon". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sumo", "Simon", "savon", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 saumon, spelled S-A-U-M-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Poisson de la famille des salmonidés dont la chair est très appréciée et qui remonte les rivières au moment du frai.
- 2Chair de ce poisson, consommée par l'homme.
- 3Lingot de métal obtenu en fonderie.
- 4Caisson allongé servant de carénage à l’extrémité d’une aile d’avion.
- 5Bloc de matériau dans lequel est taillé par fraisage le modèle original.
- 6Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Il se blasonne comme n’importe quel poisson.
- 7Cycliste urbain roulant à contre-sens.
- 8Nom donné par analogie de forme — elles sont longues — aux boîtes de dérivation ou de raccordement étanches que l’on enterre dans le sol.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asumon,samuon,saummon,saumno,saumonn,sauomn,ssaumon,suamon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for saumon
Misspelling Variants of "saumon"
Frequency rank: #10,783 in French
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