salique
\sa.lik\
The verdict
“salique” is uncommon French (frequency #63,336 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,336
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux Francs saliens.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salique · salique · French
salique · rank #63,336 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,336
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH salivaire
Nearest frequency peer: salivaire (+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 « salique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sahib
sahib
36,668 corpus weight
- salaces
salaces
36,667 corpus weight
- salique
salique
36,665 corpus weight
- salivaire
salivaire
36,664 corpus weight
- Sandberg
Sandberg
36,663 corpus weight
- sanglot
sanglot
36,662 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « salique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sa.lik\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,336 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « salique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
salique is uncommon French at frequency #63,336 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sa.lik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
salique has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists 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 salique, spelled S-A-L-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux Francs saliens.
- 2Qualifie l’ancienne loi franque telle qu'elle fut recueillie en latin.
- 3Qualifie les terres qui furent distribuées aux guerriers francs après la conquête de la Gaule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how salique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La loi salique en son titre XLVI nous décrit minutieusement les rites formalistes de l'institution, rites antérieurs aux invasions, semble-t-il ; ces rites rapprochent aussi l’affatomie des legs et du testament, […].
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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