sécurité
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#471
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
sécurité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Confiance, tranquillité d’esprit qui résulte de l’opinion, bien ou mal fondée, qu’on n’a pas à craindre de danger. Pronounced \se.ky.ʁi.te\. It ranks #471 in French word frequency. Often confused with séduite and security.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sécurité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.ky.ʁi.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #471 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sécurité is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \se.ky.ʁi.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #471 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for sécurité, with forms such as "scéurité", "securite", and "ssécurité". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "séduite", "security", "sévérité", 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 sécurité, spelled S-É-C-U-R-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Confiance, tranquillité d’esprit qui résulte de l’opinion, bien ou mal fondée, qu’on n’a pas à craindre de danger.
- 2État d’esprit ou situation résultant de l’éloignement d’un danger ou de l’absence réelle de dangers (1780 ; Le Robert)
- 3Situation entraînant la protection, l’absence relative de danger pour les personnes ou les biens, et qui détermine la confiance.
- 4En gestion des risques, ce qui concourt à la prévention contre les atteintes involontaires (accident, catastrophe naturelle).
- 5Dispositif du mécanisme d’une arme à feu permettant d’empêcher un tir involontaire.
- 6Sécurité des données, cybersécurité.
- 7Apocope de sécurité sociale.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: scéurité,securite,ssécurité,séccurité,sécruité,sécuirté,sécuritté,sécuriét,sécurrité,sécurtié,séucrité,éscurité
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sécurité
Misspelling Variants of "sécurité"
Frequency rank: #471 in French
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