sec
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,897
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sec is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui a peu ou pas d’humidité. Pronounced \sɛk\. It ranks #2,897 in French word frequency. Often confused with si and st.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sec |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \sɛk\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #2,897 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sec is 3 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛk\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,897 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.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for sec in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "si", "st", "su", 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 sec, spelled S-E-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui a peu ou pas d’humidité.
- 2Il est opposé à vert et frais, lorsqu’on parle des herbes, des plantes.
- 3Dont on a évaporé les éléments humides, séché ou asséché.
- 4Décharné ; nerveux ; osseux.
- 5Rude ; abrupt ; sans moelleux ; sans douceur ; nerveux ; concis.
- 6Qualifie un vin qui n’est pas liquoreux, qui n’est pas moelleux.
- 7Seul, sans accompagnement, nu.
- 8Sans compensation, sans contrepartie.
- 9Seul.
- 10Qualifie un lieu où la vente ou la présence d’alcool est interdite.
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Frequency rank: #2,897 in French
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