sectionner
\sɛk.sjɔ.ne\
The verdict
“sectionner” is uncommon French (frequency #72,731 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,731
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Diviser en plusieurs parties ou sections.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sectionner · sectionner · French
sectionner · rank #72,731 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,731
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scottie
Nearest frequency peer: scottie (-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 « sectionner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- scintillent
scintillent
27,273 corpus weight
- scintiller
scintiller
27,272 corpus weight
- scottie
scottie
27,271 corpus weight
- sectionner
sectionner
27,270 corpus weight
- senestre
senestre
27,269 corpus weight
- sexués
sexués
27,267 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sectionner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sectionner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɛk.sjɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #72,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sectionner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sectionner is uncommon French at frequency #72,731 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sɛk.sjɔ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sectionner, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is sectionner, spelled S-E-C-T-I-O-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Diviser en plusieurs parties ou sections.
- 2Couper, trancher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sectionner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’opération de sarclage consiste essentiellement à sectionner les adventices dans le sol à faible profondeur au moyen de pièces travaillantes tranchantes.
Il replongea dans ses fleurs, sectionnant impitoyablement les boutons qui lui déplaisaient.
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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