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“saillie” and “saillies” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #27,960
- “saillie” frequency rank
- #45,302
- “saillies” frequency rank
- 73262
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | saillie | saillies |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Élan, mouvement soudain fait avec impétuosité. | Pluriel de saillie. |
Same sound, different letters: saillie vs saillies
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. saillie runs 7 letters (CVVCCVV) against saillies's 8 (CVVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - saillie / saillies
This is the hard kind. saillie and saillies are pronounced identically (\sa.ji\) and both work as anoun. 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) - “saillie” sits inside “saillies”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 73262, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
saillie is recorded at frequency rank #27,960, classified as anoun, pronounced \sa.ji\. saillies is at rank #45,302, tagged as anoun, pronounced \sa.ji\.
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 73262, this pair ranks #41,077 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of saillie vs saillies
Shared letters: aeils. Private to "saillie": -. Private to "saillies": -.
"saillie" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVV · "saillies" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "saillie" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "saillies" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #41,077 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "saillie" and "saillies" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "saillie vs seille". 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 #41,077 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.