salivaire
\sa.li.vɛʁ\
The verdict
“salivaire” is uncommon French (frequency #63,337 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,337
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui sécrète de la salive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salivaire · salivaire · French
salivaire · rank #63,337 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,337
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH salique
Nearest frequency peer: salique (-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 « salivaire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- sanhédrin
sanhédrin
36,661 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « salivaire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salivaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sa.li.vɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,337 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « salivaire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
salivaire is uncommon French at frequency #63,337 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sa.li.vɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
salivaire has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is salivaire, spelled S-A-L-I-V-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui sécrète de la salive.
- 2Qui est relié à de la salive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how salivaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Glandes salivaires.
Songbird Life Science, qui distribue le test au Canada et aux États-Unis, pense que des établissements comme des hôpitaux, des foyers de soins de longue durée ou des écoles, seront intéressés au nouveau test salivaire.
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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