salace
\sa.las\
The verdict
“salace” is uncommon French (frequency #71,046 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,046
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a de la salacité, un penchant prononcé pour l’érotisme, l’obscénité, les rapports sexuels.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salace · salace · French
salace · rank #71,046 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,046
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sako
Nearest frequency peer: sako (-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 « salace »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sacrificate…
sacrificateur
28,958 corpus weight
- sahariennes
sahariennes
28,957 corpus weight
- sako
sako
28,956 corpus weight
- salace
salace
28,955 corpus weight
- sani
sani
28,953 corpus weight
- sarments
sarments
28,952 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « salace » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salace |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sa.las\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,046 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « salace » en français
Rare enough to double-check
salace is uncommon French at frequency #71,046 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sa.las\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for salace in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is salace, spelled S-A-L-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a de la salacité, un penchant prononcé pour l’érotisme, l’obscénité, les rapports sexuels.
- 2Qui a de la salacité, un caractère érotique, lubrique, obscène de propos ou de comportements.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how salace appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] de ces sels salutaires des meilleures plantes de la médecine, et de ceux qu’on appelle Attiques, sont pires que ceux que les boucs et les chèvres, les plus salaces de tous les animaux lèchent sur les vieux murs ou sur les rochers, sels qui n’ont jamais été bons que pour les sacrifices de l’infâme Astarté des Sydoniens, dons les Grecs et les Latins ont…
Le Maître, après avoir longuement exploré chacun des replis de cet endroit, projette le bout de son organe gustatif dans l'orifice déjà humide d'un mélange de salive et de jus de moule. Elle lâche un cri bestial sous cette pénétration inattendue et salace.
This word in other languages
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.
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