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silt

French, noun\silt\

silt is spelled S-I-L-T (4 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written French, the 190,022nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Silt is a French masculine noun meaning “silt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sable très fin”.

What does silt mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinesilt

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Sable très fin.

adjective: 1. Relatif à la loi nᵒ 2017-1510 du 30 octobre 2017 renforçant la sécurité intérieure et la lutte contre le terrorisme, dite « loi SILT ». 2. Caractérise un périmètre de protection, instauré par le préfet, réservé à des lieux ou des événements soumis à un risque d'actes de terrorisme à raison de leur nature même ou de l'ampleur de leur fréquentation, qui en font des cibles privilégiées.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of silt

  • silts plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce silt?

  • \silt\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to silt

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is silt in French?

silt appears about once in every 35 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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