salin
\sa.lɛ̃\
The verdict
“salin” is uncommon French (frequency #50,498 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,498
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui contient du sel ; qui est de la nature du sel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salin · salin · French
salin · rank #50,498 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,498
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Saez
Nearest frequency peer: Saez (-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 « salin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- réunionnaise
réunionnaise
49,507 corpus weight
- saccagée
saccagée
49,505 corpus weight
- Saez
Saez
49,504 corpus weight
- salin
salin
49,503 corpus weight
- sauverait
sauverait
49,502 corpus weight
- SCA
SCA
49,500 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « salin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sa.lɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #50,498 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « salin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
salin is uncommon French at frequency #50,498 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sa.lɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui contient du sel ; qui est de la nature du sel.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for salin, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is salin, spelled S-A-L-I-N.
Definition
- 1Qui contient du sel ; qui est de la nature du sel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how salin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Entre Yari et Sissy, dans une savane immense de gamba, nous avons croisé, ce matin, quatre Manga menant à Kano dix ânes chargés de pains de sel et de couffins de natron — une production de ce pays très particulier où abondent les mares salines.
Quelle que fût la direction du vent, c’était toujours de l’air marin, aussi salin que sur un bateau.
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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