salicaire
\sa.li.kɛʁ\
The verdict
“salicaire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lythrum, genre de plantes de la famille des lythracées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salicaire · salicaire · French
salicaire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salicaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.li.kɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
salicaire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.li.kɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for salicaire in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is salicaire, spelled S-A-L-I-C-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Lythrum, genre de plantes de la famille des lythracées.
- 2Lythrum salicaria, la salicaire commune.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how salicaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Père d’Exiles atteignit bientôt le fleuve. Il coulait entre de hautes touffes de salicaires d’un vert argenté.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.