saumon fumé
\sɔ.mɔ̃ fy.me\
The verdict
“saumon fumé” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chair de saumon fumée, puis salée destinée à la consommation en cuisine. Généralement présenté en tranche fine ou en dé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-saumon-fume · saumon fumé · French
saumon fumé · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saumon fumé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.mɔ̃ fy.me\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
saumon fumé is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɔ.mɔ̃ fy.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for saumon fumé in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is saumon fumé, spelled S-A-U-M-O-N- -F-U-M-É.
Definition
- 1Chair de saumon fumée, puis salée destinée à la consommation en cuisine. Généralement présenté en tranche fine ou en dé.
- 2Pour parler du saumon fumé en général, de son industrie, de son marché.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how saumon fumé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y avait aussi, comme hors-d’œuvre, des tranches rouges qu'on étendait sur du pain noir en le saupoudrant de poivre : c'était du saumon fumé.
Le prix du saumon fumé dans la vente au détail a notablement diminué pendant les dernières décennies.
This word in other languages
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.