Salignac

name

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The verdict

“Salignac” is uncommon French (frequency #94,241 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#94,241
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.

Corpus desk

Index FR-salignac · Salignac · French

Salignac · rank #94,241 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #94,241
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH Sakurai

Nearest frequency peer: Sakurai (-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 « Salignac »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Salignac » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Salignac
PropertyValue
HeadwordSalignac
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters8
Frequency rank#94,241
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Salignac » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Salignactombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Sakurai » (#94,240), « Sakhaline » (#94,239), « salières » (#94,243). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « Salignac » est au #94,241. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Salignac is uncommon French at frequency #94,241 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Salignac, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Salignac, spelled S-A-L-I-G-N-A-C.

Definition

  1. 1
    Commune française, située dans le département des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
  2. 2
    Village et ancienne commune française, située dans le département de la Gironde intégrée dans la commune de Val de Virvée en janvier 2016.
  3. 3
    Ancienne commune française maintenant intégrée à Salignac-Eyvigues (dans la Dordogne), ou nom court de Salignac-Eyvigues.
  4. 4
    Ancien nom de la commune française Salignac-de-Mirambeau.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Salignac appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les autres Périgordins sont en poule 3 : Issigeac, Salignac et le promu Prigonrieux défieront les Corréziens de Varetz, Aspo Brive, Dampniat, La Rivière-de-Mansac et Chasteaux, ainsi que les Lot-et-Garonnais de Saint-Aubin et Lacapelle-Biron.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Salignac"?
"Salignac" is spelled S-A-L-I-G-N-A-C.
What does "Salignac" mean?
As a proper noun, "Salignac" means: Commune française, située dans le département des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
What language does "Salignac" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Salignac", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

salières#94,243Saillans#94,236sampling#94,246sapienza#94,249

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list