seau
\so\
The verdict
“seau” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,010) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,010
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Récipient cylindrique, ou plus souvent tronconique, de plastique, de bois ou de métal, en général pourvu d’une anse, servant à transporter un liquide, du sable ou autres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-seau · seau · French
seau · rank #16,010 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,010
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sauvés
Nearest frequency peer: sauvés (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « seau »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- salir
salir
83,994 corpus weight
- Samson
Samson
83,993 corpus weight
- sauvés
sauvés
83,992 corpus weight
- seau
seau
83,991 corpus weight
- sentant
sentant
83,990 corpus weight
- serbes
serbes
83,989 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « seau » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | seau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \so\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #16,010 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « seau »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for seau is neighbouring look-alikes ("su", "ses", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \so\. Frequency #16,010 among 6,032 “S” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for seau, with forms such as "esau", "saeu", and "seua". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "su", "ses", "sec", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is seau, spelled S-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Récipient cylindrique, ou plus souvent tronconique, de plastique, de bois ou de métal, en général pourvu d’une anse, servant à transporter un liquide, du sable ou autres.
- 2Quantité contenue dans un seau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how seau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], Rabalan rencontra une paysanne, les manches retroussées jusqu’au coude, qui portait un seau plein de lait...
Deux malabars me cognaient dessus et me laissaient sur le carreau pendant un certain temps puis me ranimaient à coup de seaux d’eau.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esau
- saeu
- seua
- sseau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of seau - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "seau", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).