sed
\seð\
The verdict
“sed” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #37,064) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #37,064
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sed · sed · French
sed · rank #37,064 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,064
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Shenzhen
Nearest frequency peer: Shenzhen (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « sed »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- saturées
saturées
62,940 corpus weight
- scarabée
scarabée
62,939 corpus weight
- sed
sed
62,937 corpus weight
- Shenzhen
Shenzhen
62,936 corpus weight
- silencieuses
silencieuses
62,935 corpus weight
- Sloan
Sloan
62,934 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « sed » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sed |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \seð\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #37,064 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « sed »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sed is neighbouring look-alikes ("si", "st", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \seð\. Frequency #37,064 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Soif.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sed, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "si", "st", "su", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sed, spelled S-E-D.
Definition
- 1Soif.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).