saillie

/\sa.ji\/ noun

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.

Key facts for saillie
PropertyValue
Headwordsaillie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sa.ji\
Letters7
Frequency rank#27,960
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of saillie in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Élan, mouvement soudain fait avec impétuosité.
  2. 2
    Emportement, boutade, échappée.
  3. 3
    Trait d’esprit brillant et inattendu qui éclate soudain soit dans la conversation, soit dans un ouvrage.
  4. 4
    Éminence, bosse, qui avance du plan de surface d’un objet quelconque.
  5. 5
    Partie d’un immeuble telle que corniche, moulure, balcon, etc., qui avance sur la voie publique ou sur le terrain du voisin.
  6. 6
    Relief apparent des objets représentés dans un tableau.
  7. 7
    Acte 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"

asillie7sailie6sailile7saillei7salilie7siallie7ssaillie8
Misspelling Variants of "saillie"

Frequency rank: #27,960 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "saillie"?
"saillie" is spelled S-A-I-L-L-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.ji\.
What does "saillie" mean?
As a noun, "saillie" means: Élan, mouvement soudain fait avec impétuosité.
What words are commonly confused with "saillie"?
"saillie" is commonly confused with "salle", "saisie", "seille". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "saillie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "saillie" is \sa.ji\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "saillie" come from?
"saillie" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.