sécher

\se.ʃe\

/\se.ʃe\/ verb

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The verdict

“sécher” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,592. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,592
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre sec.

Corpus desk

Index FR-secher · sécher · French

sécher · rank #10,592 · 10 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,592
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH syrienne

Nearest frequency peer: syrienne (-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 « sécher »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « sécher » 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).

sécher vs secte
50% similar
sécher vs sucer
67% similar
sécher vs semer
50% similar

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

Key facts for sécher
PropertyValue
Headwordsécher
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\se.ʃe\
Letters6
Frequency rank#10,592
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sécher »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.sécherse 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 « syrienne » (#10,591), « séparées » (#10,593), « sérénité » (#10,594). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sécher » est au #10,592. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around sécher (IPA \se.ʃe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,592 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 15 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sécher, with forms such as "scéher", "secher", and "ssécher". 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, "secte", "sucer", "semer", 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. The correct French form is sécher, spelled S-É-C-H-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Rendre sec.
  2. 2
    Faire cesser l’affliction, en parlant des larmes ou des pleurs.
  3. 3
    Mettre à sec.
  4. 4
    Boire et vider complètement un verre ou une bouteille.
  5. 5
    Ne pas aller en cours ou à l’école quand cela est obligatoire.
  6. 6
    Ne pas venir à un endroit où l’on était attendu.
  7. 7
    Procéder au séchage d’une solution.
  8. 8
    Perdre du gras pour rendre les muscles plus apparents.
  9. 9
    Mettre une raclée.
  10. 10
    Assommer ou accabler.
  11. 11
    Tuer.
  12. 12
    Devenir sec.
  13. 13
    Ne pas disposer des connaissances ou de l’inspiration nécessaires pour effectuer un devoir écrit ou répondre à une interrogation.
  14. 14
    Ne pas trouver à se marier, en parlant d’une fille.
  15. 15
    Se consumer d’ennui, de tristesse ou être en proie à une vive impatience.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how sécher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. […] on vient d’inaugurer un séchoir artificiel : c’est un four à chaleur modérée, où l’on dispose les poissons sur des lattes ; au bout de trois jours ils sont séchés à point.
  2. Les deux moines qui entraient en charge pour leur semaine de service commençaient par l’abbé : le plus ancien (selon le rang monastique) lavait les pieds et le plus jeune les séchait.

This word in other languages

dry(English)secar(Español)trocknen(Deutsch)enxugar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • scéher
  • secher
  • ssécher
  • séccher
  • sécehr
  • sécherr
  • séchher
  • séchre
  • séhcer
  • éscher

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

scéher2secher1ssécher1séccher1sécehr2sécherr1séchher1séchre2
Edit distance from "sécher"

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 "sécher"?
"sécher" is spelled S-É-C-H-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \se.ʃe\.
What does "sécher" mean?
As a verb, "sécher" means: Rendre sec.
What words are commonly confused with "sécher"?
"sécher" is commonly confused with "secte", "sucer", "semer". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sécher"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sécher" is \se.ʃe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sécher" come from?
"sécher" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

sprint#10,588Verdun#10,604vilain#10,607votent#10,610

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

syrienne10 variantsvendues10 variantséclairé10 variantsrecevra10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list