saillantes
\sa.jɑ̃t\
The verdict
“saillantes” is uncommon French (frequency #52,975 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,975
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de saillant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-saillantes · saillantes · French
saillantes · rank #52,975 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,975
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sagacité
Nearest frequency peer: sagacité (-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 « saillantes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- réminiscence
réminiscence
47,030 corpus weight
- sagacité
sagacité
47,027 corpus weight
- saillantes
saillantes
47,026 corpus weight
- salués
salués
47,025 corpus weight
- Samos
Samos
47,024 corpus weight
- Sandoz
Sandoz
47,023 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « saillantes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saillantes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sa.jɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #52,975 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « saillantes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
saillantes is uncommon French at frequency #52,975 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sa.jɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de saillant.".
saillantes has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is saillantes, spelled S-A-I-L-L-A-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de saillant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how saillantes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les côtes primaires en forme de crêtes saillantes sont encore terminées par une saillie pointue à partir de laquelle elles continuent de se trifurquer.
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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