secrétaire
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,346
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
secrétaire is aFrenchnoun. It means: Personne de confiance qui détient les secrets de l’entreprise où elle travaille. Pronounced \sə.kʁe.tɛʁ\. It ranks #1,346 in French word frequency. Often confused with sectaire and sociétaire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | secrétaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sə.kʁe.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #1,346 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for secrétaire is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sə.kʁe.tɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,346 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for secrétaire, with forms such as "escrétaire", "scerétaire", and "seccrétaire". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "sectaire", "sociétaire", "sécuritaire", 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is secrétaire, spelled S-E-C-R-É-T-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Personne de confiance qui détient les secrets de l’entreprise où elle travaille.
- 2Celui, celle dont l’emploi est de rédiger et d’écrire des lettres, des dépêches « importantes » pour une autre personne qui souvent engage la société pour laquelle elle travaille.
- 3Personne qui tient registre des délibérations d’une assemblée ou qui rédige les lettres expédiées au nom de cette assemblée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: escrétaire,scerétaire,seccrétaire,secretaire,secrrétaire,secrtéaire,secréatire,secrétaier,secrétairre,secrétarie,secrétiare,secréttaire,secértaire,sercétaire,ssecrétaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for secrétaire
Misspelling Variants of "secrétaire"
Frequency rank: #1,346 in French
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