saillant
\sa.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“saillant” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,959. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,959
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui avance, qui sort en dehors.
Corpus desk
Index FR-saillant · saillant · French
saillant · rank #27,959 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,959
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sacro
Nearest frequency peer: sacro (-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 « saillant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rétine
rétine
72,045 corpus weight
- S3
S3
72,044 corpus weight
- sacro
sacro
72,043 corpus weight
- saillant
saillant
72,042 corpus weight
- saillie
saillie
72,041 corpus weight
- sainement
sainement
72,040 corpus weight
What this shows « saillant » 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 | saillant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sa.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,959 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « saillant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around saillant (IPA \sa.jɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,959 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for saillant, with forms such as "asillant", "sailalnt", and "sailant". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "saluant", "sanglant", "saillants", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 saillant, spelled S-A-I-L-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui avance, qui sort en dehors.
- 2Qualifie un angle plus petit qu’un angle plat.
- 3Qualifie ce qui est vif, frappant ou de ce qui ressort, en parlant des ouvrages de l’esprit.
- 4Se dit d’un caprin (chèvre, bouquetin, chamois, isard, bouc…) représenté rampant. Pour les ovins on utilisera plutôt sautant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how saillant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le vieillard appartenait aux modèles affectionnés par les mâles pinceaux de Schnetz ; c’était un visage brun dont les rides nombreuses paraissaient rudes au toucher, un nez droit, des pommettes saillantes et veinées de rouge comme une vieille feuille de vigne, de contours anguleux, tous les caractères de la force, même là où la force avait disparu ; ses m…
Il ne restait que le commissaire de police, un gros aux yeux saillants, qui allait jouer le rôle d’exécuteur des hautes œuvres.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asillant
- sailalnt
- sailant
- saillannt
- saillantt
- saillatn
- saillnat
- salilant
- siallant
- ssaillant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of saillant - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).