sècheresse
\sɛʃ.ʁɛs\
The verdict
“sècheresse” is uncommon French (frequency #77,072 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,072
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État, caractère de ce qui est sec.
Corpus desk
Index FR-secheresse · sècheresse · French
sècheresse · rank #77,072 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,072
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH systématiser
Nearest frequency peer: systématiser (-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 « sècheresse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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22,932 corpus weight
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22,931 corpus weight
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22,930 corpus weight
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sècheresse
22,929 corpus weight
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22,928 corpus weight
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22,927 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sècheresse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sècheresse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛʃ.ʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sècheresse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sècheresse is uncommon French at frequency #77,072 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛʃ.ʁɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sècheresse, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sècheresse, spelled S-È-C-H-E-R-E-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1État, caractère de ce qui est sec.
- 2État atmosphérique sans pluie.
- 3Absence de douceur, froideur dans les manières, dans le ton, dans les sentiments.
- 4Se dit d’une sorte de maigreur, d’indigence, d’aridité.
- 5Se dit de l’absence de moelleux, de souplesse, de la dureté des contours.
- 6Se dit de l’état de l’âme qui ne sent pas de douceur, pas de consolation dans les exercices de piété.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sècheresse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La sècheresse de la terre fait grand tort aux moissons.
La sècheresse de la langue est un signe de fièvre.
Antonyms
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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