saillir
French, verb/sa.jiʁ/
saillir is spelled S-A-I-L-L-I-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 114,550th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Saillir is a French verb meaning “to stick out, bulge out, jut out” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Jaillir, sortir avec impétuosité et par secousses, en parlant des choses liquides”.
What does saillir mean in English?
verb
- 1
archaicto spurt
- 2
archaicto sire (to procreate)
verb
- 1
to stick out, bulge out, jut out
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Jaillir, sortir avec impétuosité et par secousses, en parlant des choses liquides. 2. Sortir, déborder. 3. Faire une sortie, s'élancer avec force. 4. Couvrir une femelle.
verb: 1. Être en saillie ; déborder le mur. 2. Donner beaucoup de relief, sembler sortir de la toile.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of saillir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- saillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- sailli participle past
- saille indicative present singular
- saillent indicative plural present
- saillait imperfect indicative singular
- saillaient imperfect indicative plural
- saillit historic indicative past
- saillirent historic indicative past
- saillira future indicative singular
- saillera future indicative singular
- sailliront future indicative plural
- sailleront future indicative plural
- saillirait conditional singular third-person
- saillerait conditional singular third-person
- sailliraient conditional plural third-person
- sailleraient conditional plural third-person
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce saillir?
- /sa.jiʁ/
- \sa.jiʁ\
- [sa.jiʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to saillir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is saillir in French?
saillir appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).