saison sèche

/\sɛ.zɔ̃ sɛʃ\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

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saison sèche is aFrenchnoun. It means: Saison de l’année dans les climats tropicaux durant laquelle il pleut peu ou pas du tout. Pronounced \sɛ.zɔ̃ sɛʃ\.

Key facts for saison sèche
PropertyValue
Headwordsaison sèche
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɛ.zɔ̃ sɛʃ\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

saison sèche is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for saison sèche is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛ.zɔ̃ sɛʃ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Saison de l’année dans les climats tropicaux durant laquelle il pleut peu ou pas du tout.".

No misspelling variants are generated for saison sèche in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 saison sèche, spelled S-A-I-S-O-N- -S-È-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Saison de l’année dans les climats tropicaux durant laquelle il pleut peu ou pas du tout.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "saison sèche"?
"saison sèche" is spelled S-A-I-S-O-N- -S-È-C-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sɛ.zɔ̃ sɛʃ\.
What does "saison sèche" mean?
As a noun, "saison sèche" means: Saison de l’année dans les climats tropicaux durant laquelle il pleut peu ou pas du tout.
How do you pronounce "saison sèche"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "saison sèche" is \sɛ.zɔ̃ sɛʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "saison sèche" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.