sébum
\se.bɔm\
The verdict
“sébum” is uncommon French (frequency #80,692 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,692
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sécrétion lipidique des glandes sébacées ou de la glande uropygienne lubrifiant et protégeant la peau et les poils ou les plumes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sebum · sébum · French
sébum · rank #80,692 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,692
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH séchoirs
Nearest frequency peer: séchoirs (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « sébum »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- surannée
surannée
19,315 corpus weight
- surimpressi…
surimpression
19,314 corpus weight
- sustentation
sustentation
19,313 corpus weight
- sébum
sébum
19,309 corpus weight
- séchoirs
séchoirs
19,308 corpus weight
- tamoule
tamoule
19,306 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sébum » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sébum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.bɔm\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,692 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sébum » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sébum is uncommon French at frequency #80,692 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \se.bɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sécrétion lipidique des glandes sébacées ou de la glande uropygienne lubrifiant et protégeant la peau et les poils ou les plumes.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sébum, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is sébum, spelled S-É-B-U-M.
Definition
- 1Sécrétion lipidique des glandes sébacées ou de la glande uropygienne lubrifiant et protégeant la peau et les poils ou les plumes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sébum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un excès de sébum entraîne l'acné.
Les Japonaises du temps jadis ne se lavaient les cheveux que quatre fois par an. On a du mal à imaginer que, dans cette civilisation si raffinée, où l’esthétisme régnait en maître, les belles avaient le plus souvent une tignasse luisante de sébum.
This word in other languages
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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