saillie
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#27,960
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
saillie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Élan, mouvement soudain fait avec impétuosité. Pronounced \sa.ji\. Often confused with salle and saisie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saillie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.ji\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,960 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for saillie is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sa.ji\. Corpus data places it at rank #27,960 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for saillie, with forms such as "asillie", "sailie", and "sailile". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "salle", "saisie", "seille", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is saillie, spelled S-A-I-L-L-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Élan, mouvement soudain fait avec impétuosité.
- 2Emportement, boutade, échappée.
- 3Trait d’esprit brillant et inattendu qui éclate soudain soit dans la conversation, soit dans un ouvrage.
- 4Éminence, bosse, qui avance du plan de surface d’un objet quelconque.
- 5Partie d’un immeuble telle que corniche, moulure, balcon, etc., qui avance sur la voie publique ou sur le terrain du voisin.
- 6Relief apparent des objets représentés dans un tableau.
- 7Acte sexuel, action de saillir, pour les animaux.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asillie,sailie,sailile,saillei,salilie,siallie,ssaillie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for saillie
Misspelling Variants of "saillie"
Frequency rank: #27,960 in French
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