salive
\sa.liv\
The verdict
“salive” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,997. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,997
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Liquide clair, alcalin, produit par les glandes salivaires placées autour de la bouche et qui commence la digestion des aliments.
Corpus desk
Index FR-salive · salive · French
salive · rank #16,997 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,997
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH salauds
Nearest frequency peer: salauds (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « salive »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- résistent
résistent
83,007 corpus weight
- salauds
salauds
83,005 corpus weight
- salive
salive
83,004 corpus weight
- Sanders
Sanders
83,003 corpus weight
- sapeurs
sapeurs
83,002 corpus weight
- sauts
sauts
83,001 corpus weight
What this shows « salive » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.liv\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,997 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « salive »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around salive (IPA \sa.liv\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,997 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Liquide clair, alcalin, produit par les glandes salivaires placées autour de la bouche et qui commence la digestion des aliments.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for salive, with forms such as "aslive", "sailve", and "saliev". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "save", "salle", "sauvé", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 salive, spelled S-A-L-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Liquide clair, alcalin, produit par les glandes salivaires placées autour de la bouche et qui commence la digestion des aliments.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how salive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La langue est dure, déformée et relevée à la pointe : c’est la « langue de bois » des paysans allemands. La mastication est difficile, la salive n’est plus retenue dans la bouche et l’animal dépérit considérablement.
Sa langue épaisse patauge dans la salive avec un bruit de gargouille. Au bord de la lèvre inférieure apparaît sans cesse une gouttelette sirupeuse, toujours prête à s’échapper, semble-t-il, mais que le vieil homme ravale juste à temps, avec une précision de prestidigitateur.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aslive
- sailve
- saliev
- salivve
- sallive
- salvie
- slaive
- ssalive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of salive - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).