salicaire
French, noun/sa.li.kɛʁ/
salicaire is spelled S-A-L-I-C-A-I-R-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 60 million words in written French, the 244,837th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Salicaire is a French feminine noun meaning “loosestrife; particularly the purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Lythrum, genre de plantes de la famille des lythracées”.
What does salicaire mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineloosestrife; particularly the purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Lythrum, genre de plantes de la famille des lythracées. 2. Lythrum salicaria, la salicaire commune.
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 salicaire
- salicaires plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce salicaire?
- /sa.li.kɛʁ/
- \sa.li.kɛʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to salicaire
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is salicaire in French?
salicaire appears about once in every 60 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).