sècheresse
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#77,072
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
sècheresse is aFrenchnoun. It means: État, caractère de ce qui est sec. Pronounced \sɛʃ.ʁɛs\.
| 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) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sècheresse is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛʃ.ʁɛs\. Corpus data places it at rank #77,072 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for sècheresse in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 sècheresse, spelled S-È-C-H-E-R-E-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Frequency rank: #77,072 in French
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