sédentarisation
\se.dɑ̃.ta.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“sédentarisation” is uncommon French (frequency #72,776 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,776
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Adoption d’une mode de vie sédentaire en parlant d’un peuple ou de l’Homme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sedentarisation · sédentarisation · French
sédentarisation · rank #72,776 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,776
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH suspectent
Nearest frequency peer: suspectent (-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 « sédentarisation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- surhommes
surhommes
27,227 corpus weight
- suspectent
suspectent
27,226 corpus weight
- sédentarisa…
sédentarisation
27,225 corpus weight
- Séguy
Séguy
27,224 corpus weight
- séropositive
séropositive
27,223 corpus weight
- Sézanne
Sézanne
27,222 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sédentarisation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sédentarisation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.dɑ̃.ta.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #72,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sédentarisation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sédentarisation is uncommon French at frequency #72,776 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \se.dɑ̃.ta.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for sédentarisation in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 sédentarisation, spelled S-É-D-E-N-T-A-R-I-S-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Adoption d’une mode de vie sédentaire en parlant d’un peuple ou de l’Homme.
- 2Action de sédentariser un peuple nomade par donner des domiciles et des travails fixes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sédentarisation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dès l’avènement de l’agriculture et de la sédentarisation des chasseurs-cueilleurs, il a été vital de trouver des solutions pour maintenir les stocks alimentaires.
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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