salicaire commune
\sa.li.kɛʁ kɔ.myn\
The verdict
“salicaire commune” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Espèce de salicaires poussant toujours à proximité de l’eau, plantes herbacée vivaces à feuilles opposés simples ressemblant à celles des saules et à longs épis de fleurs à six pétales libres rose ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salicaire commune |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.li.kɛʁ kɔ.myn\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “salicaire commune” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for salicaire commune is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sa.li.kɛʁ kɔ.myn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Espèce de salicaires poussant toujours à proximité de l’eau, plantes herbacée vivaces à feuilles opposés simples ressemblant à celles des saules et à longs épis de fleurs à six pétales libres rose ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for salicaire commune in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is salicaire commune, spelled S-A-L-I-C-A-I-R-E- -C-O-M-M-U-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce de salicaires poussant toujours à proximité de l’eau, plantes herbacée vivaces à feuilles opposés simples ressemblant à celles des saules et à longs épis de fleurs à six pétales libres rose pourpré à aspect un peu froissé.
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- The one correct French spelling is S-A-L-I-C-A-I-R-E- -C-O-M-M-U-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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