salissent
\sa.lis\
The verdict
“salissent” is uncommon French (frequency #59,622 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,622
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de salir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salissent · salissent · French
salissent · rank #59,622 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,622
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH saisira
Nearest frequency peer: saisira (-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 « salissent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Sacks
Sacks
40,382 corpus weight
- sacy
sacy
40,381 corpus weight
- saisira
saisira
40,380 corpus weight
- salissent
salissent
40,379 corpus weight
- salivaires
salivaires
40,378 corpus weight
- saltimbanque
saltimbanque
40,377 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « salissent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salissent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sa.lis\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,622 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « salissent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
salissent is uncommon French at frequency #59,622 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sa.lis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for salissent, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is salissent, spelled S-A-L-I-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de salir.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif imparfait de salir.
- 3Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent 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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