Which to use
“saillant” and “saillants” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #27,959
- “saillant” frequency rank
- #31,250
- “saillants” frequency rank
- 59209
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | saillant | saillants |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui avance, qui sort en dehors. | Masculin pluriel de saillant. |
Same sound, different letters: saillant vs saillants
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. saillant runs 8 letters (CVVCCVCC) against saillants's 9 (CVVCCVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - saillant and saillants
This is the hard kind. saillant and saillants are pronounced identically (\sa.jɑ̃\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “saillant” sits inside “saillants”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 59209, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
saillant is recorded at frequency rank #27,959, classified as anadj, pronounced \sa.jɑ̃\. saillants is at rank #31,250, tagged as anadj, pronounced \sa.jɑ̃\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 59209, this pair ranks #104,453 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of saillant vs saillants
Shared letters: ailnst. Private to "saillant": -. Private to "saillants": -.
"saillant" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVCC · "saillants" · 9 letters · shape CVVCCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "saillant" for "saillants" ever safe?
Frequency check: "saillant" vs "saillants" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "saillant" / "saillants". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "saillant" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "saillants" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #104,453 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "saillant" and "saillants" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "saignant vs saillant". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #104,453 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.