salière
\sa.ljɛʁ\
The verdict
“salière” is uncommon French (frequency #69,412 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,412
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Récipient dans lequel on met le sel sur la table.
Corpus desk
Index FR-saliere · salière · French
salière · rank #69,412 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,412
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sailly
Nearest frequency peer: Sailly (-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 « salière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rêviez
rêviez
30,592 corpus weight
- saboteur
saboteur
30,591 corpus weight
- Sailly
Sailly
30,590 corpus weight
- salière
salière
30,589 corpus weight
- satisfasse
satisfasse
30,587 corpus weight
- sauveterre
sauveterre
30,586 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « salière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.ljɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,412 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « salière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
salière is uncommon French at frequency #69,412 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.ljɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for salière in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is salière, spelled S-A-L-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Récipient dans lequel on met le sel sur la table.
- 2Ustensile de cuisine, ordinairement de bois, où l’on met le sel et qu’on pend à la cheminée pour le tenir au sec.
- 3Creux que les humains ont quelquefois au dessus des clavicules.
- 4Creux qui se forme au-dessus des yeux des chevaux quand ils vieillissent.
- 5Chez un bovidé, partie de l'épaule la plus proche du cou.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how salière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Salière de faïence, de cristal, d’argent.
Le long du cordon des assiettes, l’armée des verres, les carafes d’eau et de vin, les petites salières, tout le cristal du service était mince et léger comme de la mousseline.
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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