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sceller/scellé/scellée/scellées/scellés/seller

"seller" (#22,091 written frequency) beats "sceller" (#25,807) in this 6-word /\se.le\/ cluster. Size rank #20 of 9,139 French groups.

Data vintage

Frequency splits the cluster

These 6 spellings keep the same /\se.le\/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "seller" leads at #22,091, with "sceller" trailing at #25,807.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • Shared stem "scell" then splits - "sceller" (7 letters) vs "scellé" (6).
  • Shared stem "scell" then splits - "sceller" (7 letters) vs "scellée" (7).
  • Shared stem "scell" then splits - "sceller" (7 letters) vs "scellées" (8).
  • Shared stem "scell" then splits - "sceller" (7 letters) vs "scellés" (7).
  • No shared spelling stem: "sceller" is 7 letters, "seller" is 6; only the sound ties them.
  • Shared stem "scellé" then splits - "scellé" (6 letters) vs "scellée" (7).
  • Shared stem "scellé" then splits - "scellé" (6 letters) vs "scellées" (8).
  • Shared stem "scellé" then splits - "scellé" (6 letters) vs "scellés" (7).
  • No shared spelling stem: "scellé" is 6 letters, "seller" is 6; only the sound ties them.
  • Shared stem "scellée" then splits - "scellée" (7 letters) vs "scellées" (8).
  • Single-letter fork: "scellée" keeps e, "scellés" writes s at letter 7.
  • No shared spelling stem: "scellée" is 7 letters, "seller" is 6; only the sound ties them.
  • Shared stem "scellé" then splits - "scellées" (8 letters) vs "scellés" (7).
  • No shared spelling stem: "scellées" is 8 letters, "seller" is 6; only the sound ties them.
  • No shared spelling stem: "scellés" is 7 letters, "seller" is 6; only the sound ties them.

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

Shared letters across sceller, scellé, scellée, scellées, scellés, seller: els. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

  • sceller

    7 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCVCCVC

    Inventory celrs · private cr

  • scellé

    6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCVCCV

    Inventory celsé · private cé

  • scellée

    7 letters · 3 vowels · shape CCVCCVV

    Inventory celsé · private cé

  • scellées

    8 letters · 3 vowels · shape CCVCCVVC

    Inventory celsé · private cé

  • scellés

    7 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCVCCVC

    Inventory celsé · private cé

  • seller

    6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVC

    Inventory elrs · private r

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "sceller" when you mean: Marquer d’un sceau.
  • Write "scellé" when you mean: Deux cachets de cire reliés par un ruban que l’on appose à des serrures, à des armoires, etc., par autorité de justice, pour empêcher de …
  • Write "scellée" when you mean: Féminin singulier de scellé.
  • Write "scellées" when you mean: Féminin pluriel de scellé.
  • Write "scellés" when you mean: Masculin pluriel de scellé.
  • Write "seller" when you mean: Mettre et affermir une selle sur un cheval, sur une mule, etc.

Known mistypes of these spellings

Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.

  • sceller ← cseller · scceller · scelelr · sceler · scellerr · scellre
  • seller ← esller · selelr · seler · sellerr · sellre · sleler

Each spelling

sceller

verb · /\se.le\/ · #25,807 frequency

Marquer d’un sceau.

scellé

/\se.le\/

Deux cachets de cire reliés par un ruban que l’on appose à des serrures, à des armoires, etc., par autorité de justice, pour empêcher de les ouvrir.

scellée

/\se.le\/

Féminin singulier de scellé.

scellées

/\se.le\/

Féminin pluriel de scellé.

scellés

/\se.le\/

Masculin pluriel de scellé.

seller

verb · /\se.le\/ · #22,091 frequency

Mettre et affermir une selle sur un cheval, sur une mule, etc.

Nearby French homophone groups

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

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