salie
\sa.li\
The verdict
“salie” is uncommon French (frequency #58,924 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,924
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de salir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salie · salie · French
salie · rank #58,924 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,924
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH saluts
Nearest frequency peer: saluts (+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 « salie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sagesses
sagesses
41,080 corpus weight
- saharien
saharien
41,079 corpus weight
- salie
salie
41,077 corpus weight
- saluts
saluts
41,076 corpus weight
- salva
salva
41,075 corpus weight
- sanctus
sanctus
41,074 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « salie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sa.li\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,924 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « salie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
salie is uncommon French at frequency #58,924 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sa.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de salir.".
Zero misspellings are on record for salie in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is salie, spelled S-A-L-I-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de salir.
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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