saisir
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,872
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
saisir is aFrenchverb. It means: Prendre vivement, rapidement, délibérément, avec vigueur. Pronounced \sɛ.ziʁ\. It ranks #3,872 in French word frequency. Often confused with sisi and salir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saisir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɛ.ziʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,872 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for saisir is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛ.ziʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,872 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for saisir, with forms such as "asisir", "saiisr", and "saisirr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "sisi", "salir", "Samir", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is saisir, spelled S-A-I-S-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Prendre vivement, rapidement, délibérément, avec vigueur.
- 2Prendre une chose de manière à pouvoir la tenir, la porter, à ne pas la laisser échapper.
- 3Inscrire de façon à avoir une trace tangible, comptabiliser, noter.
- 4Discerner, concevoir nettement, comprendre.
- 5Représenter, croquer avec exactitude, esquisser avec précision.
- 6Brûler modérément la partie extérieure d’un solide.
- 7S’emparer vivement et fortement d’une personne, en parlant des maux du corps, des maladies, des passions, des sentiments.
- 8Confisquer, arrêter, retenir par voie de saisie.
- 9Utiliser un matériel adéquat, en particulier des saisines, pour immobiliser ou au contraire transporter un objet volumineux dans la cale ou sur le pont d’un navire.
- 10Mettre en possession de.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asisir,saiisr,saisirr,saisri,saissir,sasiir,siasir,ssaisir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for saisir
Misspelling Variants of "saisir"
Frequency rank: #3,872 in French
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