saillance
French, noun\sa.jɑ̃s\
saillance is spelled S-A-I-L-L-A-N-C-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written French, the 149,203rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Saillance is a French masculine noun meaning “salience; saliency” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qualité d’être saillant”.
What does saillance mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesalience; saliency
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Qualité d’être saillant. 2. Grande probabilité d’être remarqué.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of saillance
- saillances plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce saillance?
- \sa.jɑ̃s\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to saillance
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is saillance in French?
saillance appears about once in every 21 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).