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segue

/ˈsɛɡweɪ/verb, noun

segue is spelled S-E-G-U-E. The wrong spelling people search most is segueway: about 80 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 73 of all searches for the word. Segue is a verb meaning “To move smoothly from one state or subject to another”.

How many letters and syllables are in segue?

Letters5: S-E-G-U-E
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 3 million words; the 49,368th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, segueway, about 80 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Pairs people search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).

How do you spell segue?

Segue is spelled S-E-G-U-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 73 of the searches for segue in either form.

seguethe right spelling5,760 searches a month
seguewayan extra w, an extra a, an extra y80 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is segue?

Segue appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 49,368th most frequent word form in the list.

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

How do you pronounce segue?

  • /ˈsɛɡweɪ/

Segue has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-segue.ogg, En-au-segue.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with segue

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

segue vs segway4,400 G

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of segue

  • segues present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • segueing participle, present
  • segued participle, past
  • segué

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does segue mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    To move smoothly from one state or subject to another.

    I can tell she’s going to segue from our conversation about school to the topic of marriage.

  2. 2

    To make a smooth transition from one theme to another.

    Beethoven’s symphonies effortlessly segue from one theme to the next.

  3. 3

    To play a sequence of records with no talk between them.

noun

  1. 1

    An instance of segueing, a transition.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Segue in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchenchaîner (to move smoothly from one topic to another), transition (an instance of segueing, a transition)
Germanüberleiten, wechseln (to move smoothly from one topic to another), Übergang, Überleitung (an instance of segueing, a transition)
Portuguesepassar para (to move smoothly from one topic to another), passagem, transição (an instance of segueing, a transition)
Spanishtransición (an instance of segueing, a transition)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does segue come from?

Borrowed from Italian segue (“it follows”), from seguire (“to follow”), from Latin sequor; originally a term used in a musical score to indicate that the next movement or passage is to follow without a break. Cognate with Spanish seguir. Doublet of sue. Related to suit and sequence.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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