seco
\ˈse.ko\
The verdict
“seco” is uncommon French (frequency #62,628 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,628
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sec.
Corpus desk
Index FR-seco · seco · French
seco · rank #62,628 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,628
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Seiji
Nearest frequency peer: Seiji (+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 « seco »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- schelling
schelling
37,378 corpus weight
- scholl
scholl
37,377 corpus weight
- scroll
scroll
37,375 corpus weight
- seco
seco
37,373 corpus weight
- Seiji
Seiji
37,372 corpus weight
- sereines
sereines
37,369 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « seco » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | seco |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈse.ko\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #62,628 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « seco » en français
Rare enough to double-check
seco is uncommon French at frequency #62,628 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈse.ko\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sec.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for seco, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is seco, spelled S-E-C-O.
Definition
- 1Sec.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how seco appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Con timbre sonoro y hueco truena el maestro, un anciano mal vestido, enjuto y seco que lleva un libro en la mano.
Un mediodía ardiente hicieron una asombrosa demostración con la lupa gigantesca: pusieron un montón de hierba seca en mitad de la calle y le prendieron fuego mediante la concentración de los rayos solares.
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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