séché
\se.ʃe\
The verdict
“séché” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,835. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,835
- frequency rank, French
- 394,209
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui résulte d’un séchage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-seche · séché · French
séché · rank #17,835 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,835
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 394,209
- PHOTO-FINISH suspicion
Nearest frequency peer: suspicion (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “séché”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- sugar
sugar
82,170 corpus weight
- supposant
supposant
82,169 corpus weight
- suspicion
suspicion
82,167 corpus weight
- séché
séché
82,166 corpus weight
- tentés
tentés
82,164 corpus weight
- touchait
touchait
82,162 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “séché” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | séché |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \se.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,835 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “séché” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around séché (IPA \se.ʃe\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,835 among 394,209 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui résulte d’un séchage.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for séché, with forms such as "scéhé", "seche", and "sséché". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "See", "she", "sexe", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is séché, spelled S-É-C-H-É.
Definition
- 1Qui résulte d’un séchage.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- scéhé
- seche
- sséché
- sécché
- séchhé
- sécéh
- séhcé
- ésché
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of séché - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "séché", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).
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.