sèchent

\sɛʃ\

/\sɛʃ\/ verb

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The verdict

“sèchent” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,062. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#47,062
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de sécher.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sechent · sèchent · French

sèchent · rank #47,062 · 12 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #47,062
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH tarda

Nearest frequency peer: tarda (+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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « sèchent »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « sèchent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

sèchent vs secret
57% similar
sèchent vs sécher
57% similar
sèchent vs sèment
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for sèchent
PropertyValue
Headwordsèchent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\sɛʃ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#47,062
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sèchent »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).sèchentse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « tarda » (#47,063), « sucrière » (#47,060), « Tasmanie » (#47,064). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sèchent » est au #47,062. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around sèchent (IPA \sɛʃ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #47,062 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for sèchent, with forms such as "scèhent", "sechent", and "ssèchent". 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, "secret", "sécher", "sèment", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 sèchent, spelled S-È-C-H-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de sécher.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de sécher.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • scèhent
  • sechent
  • ssèchent
  • sècchent
  • sècehnt
  • sèchennt
  • sèchentt
  • sèchetn
  • sèchhent
  • sèchnet
  • sèhcent
  • èschent

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sèchent - 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.

scèhent2sechent1ssèchent1sècchent1sècehnt2sèchennt1sèchentt1sèchetn2
Edit distance from "sèchent"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sèchent"?
"sèchent" is spelled S-È-C-H-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \sɛʃ\.
What does "sèchent" mean?
As a verb, "sèchent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de sécher.
What words are commonly confused with "sèchent"?
"sèchent" is commonly confused with "secret", "sécher", "sèment". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sèchent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sèchent" is \sɛʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sèchent" come from?
"sèchent" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sèchent", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

tordant#47,074traqués#47,079usurper#47,088savanes#47,035

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

sucrière12 variantssuccédera12 variantssuccincte12 variantstemplate12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list