saillante
\sa.jɑ̃t\
The verdict
“saillante” is uncommon French (frequency #66,324 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,324
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de l’adjectif saillant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-saillante · saillante · French
saillante · rank #66,324 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,324
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH révélèrent
Nearest frequency peer: révélèrent (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « saillante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- répandait
répandait
33,679 corpus weight
- révélèrent
révélèrent
33,678 corpus weight
- saillante
saillante
33,677 corpus weight
- salamandres
salamandres
33,676 corpus weight
- Salamine
Salamine
33,675 corpus weight
- salas
salas
33,674 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « saillante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saillante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sa.jɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,324 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « saillante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
saillante is uncommon French at frequency #66,324 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sa.jɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de l’adjectif saillant.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for saillante, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 saillante, spelled S-A-I-L-L-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de l’adjectif saillant.
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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