sécotine
\se.kɔ.tin\
The verdict
“sécotine” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Colle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-secotine · sécotine · French
sécotine · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sécotine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.kɔ.tin\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sécotine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sécotine is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \se.kɔ.tin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for sécotine in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented 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 sécotine, spelled S-É-C-O-T-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Colle.
- 2Personne qui s’attache à une autre, à la manière d’une colle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sécotine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sa spécialité consistait à scier les dés et à les piper. Il m’expliqua l’opération, car achetant lui-même l’ivoire, il le débitait en petits cubes dont il forait certains côtés pour les bourrer de plomb, en ayant soin de reboucher ensuite les trous à l’aide d’un mélange de poudre d’os et de sécotine.
[I]l y avait le même genre de fleurs sur sa tombe, et Adrien allait shooter dedans quand Alex sarclait dans un autre coin du cimetière, et après le pauvre Alex était obligé de le recoller à la sécotine ….
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.