sédentaire
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#31,759
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
sédentaire is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui demeure ordinairement assis. Pronounced \se.dɑ̃.tɛʁ\. Often confused with sédentaires and sédimentaire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sédentaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \se.dɑ̃.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #31,759 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sédentaire is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \se.dɑ̃.tɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #31,759 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for sédentaire, with forms such as "sdéentaire", "sedentaire", and "ssédentaire". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "sédentaires", "sédimentaire", 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 sédentaire, spelled S-É-D-E-N-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
- 1Qui demeure ordinairement assis.
- 2Qui reste presque toujours dans son lieu d’habitation.
- 3Fixe, attaché à un lieu.
- 4Se dit d’un peuple qui a un lieu d’habitation fixe.
- 5Se dit des troupes qui ne changent pas de garnison, qui ne se mettent jamais en campagne.
- 6Se dit d’un animal qui demeure à un seul emplacement (comme les coraux), ou ne migre pas (particulièrement pour les oiseaux).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sdéentaire,sedentaire,ssédentaire,séddentaire,sédenatire,sédenntaire,sédentaier,sédentairre,sédentarie,sédentiare,sédenttaire,sédetnaire,sédnetaire,séedntaire,ésdentaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sédentaire
Misspelling Variants of "sédentaire"
Frequency rank: #31,759 in French
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Nearby French words
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