slalom
\sla.lɔm\
The verdict
“slalom” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,597. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,597
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Descente sinueuse à skis où le parcours est jalonné de piquets.
Corpus desk
Index FR-slalom · slalom · French
slalom · rank #18,597 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,597
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH singularité
Nearest frequency peer: singularité (-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 « slalom »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sentimental
sentimental
81,407 corpus weight
- Singh
Singh
81,406 corpus weight
- singularité
singularité
81,405 corpus weight
- slalom
slalom
81,404 corpus weight
- soc
soc
81,403 corpus weight
- sound
sound
81,402 corpus weight
What this shows « slalom » 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 | slalom |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sla.lɔm\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « slalom »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around slalom (IPA \sla.lɔm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,597 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for slalom, with forms such as "lsalom", "sallom", and "slallom". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "slam", "salon", "Salem", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 slalom, spelled S-L-A-L-O-M.
Definition
- 1Descente sinueuse à skis où le parcours est jalonné de piquets.
- 2Discipline de course en canoë-kayak.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how slalom appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le moitié Brésilien par sa mère, moitié Norvégien par son père Lucas Braathen, a clairement dominé le slalom de Val-d’Isère (Savoie).
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lsalom
- sallom
- slallom
- slalmo
- slalomm
- slaolm
- sllalom
- sllaom
- sslalom
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of slalom - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "slalom", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).