saillies

\sa.ji\

/\sa.ji\/ noun

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The verdict

“saillies” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,302. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#45,302
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de saillie.

Corpus desk

Index FR-saillies · saillies · French

saillies · rank #45,302 · 9 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #45,302
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sadiques

Nearest frequency peer: sadiques (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « saillies »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « saillies » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

saillies vs salles
75% similar
saillies vs saisies
75% similar
saillies vs saillie
88% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for saillies
PropertyValue
Headwordsaillies
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sa.ji\
Letters8
Frequency rank#45,302
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « saillies »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).sailliesse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sadiques » (#45,301), « Samira » (#45,303), « rêveries » (#45,300). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « saillies » est au #45,302. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around saillies (IPA \sa.ji\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,302 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de saillie.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for saillies, with forms such as "asillies", "sailies", and "saililes". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "salles", "saisies", "saillie", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is saillies, spelled S-A-I-L-L-I-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de saillie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Nous avons tous connu de ces êtres femmisés, blonds, pâles, aux longs cils, aux cheveux soyeux et abondants, aux membres grêles et sans saillies musculaires vigoureuses, à la peau fine et délicate.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asillies
  • sailies
  • saililes
  • sailleis
  • sailliess
  • saillise
  • salilies
  • siallies
  • ssaillies

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of saillies - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

asillies2sailies1saililes2sailleis2sailliess1saillise2salilies2siallies2
Edit distance from "saillies"

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 "saillies"?
"saillies" is spelled S-A-I-L-L-I-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.ji\.
What does "saillies" mean?
As a noun, "saillies" means: Pluriel de saillie.
What words are commonly confused with "saillies"?
"saillies" is commonly confused with "salles", "saisies", "saillie". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "saillies"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "saillies" is \sa.ji\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "saillies" come from?
"saillies" 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 "saillies", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

sadiques#45,301rêveries#45,300secouant#45,306rugueuse#45,291

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

roulais9 variantsribeiro9 variantssoldée9 variantsprimée9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list