saillantes

\sa.jɑ̃t\

/\sa.jɑ̃t\/ adj

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « saillantes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for saillantes
PropertyValue
Headwordsaillantes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\sa.jɑ̃t\
Letters10
Frequency rank#52,975
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « saillantes » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.saillantestombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « sagacité » (#52,974), « salués » (#52,976), « Samos » (#52,977). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « saillantes » est au #52,975. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Féminin pluriel de saillant.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how saillantes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "saillantes"?
"saillantes" is spelled S-A-I-L-L-A-N-T-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.jɑ̃t\.
What does "saillantes" mean?
As an adjective, "saillantes" means: Féminin pluriel de saillant.
How do you pronounce "saillantes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "saillantes" is \sa.jɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "saillantes" come from?
"saillantes" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "saillantes", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list