sédiment
\se.di.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“sédiment” is uncommon French (frequency #59,670 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,670
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dépôt ou suspension solide produit par la précipitation de matières dissoutes dans un liquide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sediment · sédiment · French
sédiment · rank #59,670 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,670
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH SZ
Nearest frequency peer: SZ (-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 « sédiment »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- suspendent
suspendent
40,334 corpus weight
- sybille
sybille
40,333 corpus weight
- SZ
SZ
40,332 corpus weight
- sédiment
sédiment
40,331 corpus weight
- séduira
séduira
40,330 corpus weight
- sépia
sépia
40,329 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sédiment » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sédiment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.di.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,670 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sédiment » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sédiment is uncommon French at frequency #59,670 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \se.di.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
sédiment has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sédiment, spelled S-É-D-I-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Dépôt ou suspension solide produit par la précipitation de matières dissoutes dans un liquide.
- 2Composés minéraux qui se déposent dans certains cas de lithiase.
- 3Couche solide, dépôt provenant de la désagrégation, de la dissolution de roches préexistantes, transportés et déposés par les eaux, le vent, ou de matières d'origine organique accumulées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sédiment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a d’ordinaire beaucoup de sédiment dans cette solution.
Une partie des sédiments amazoniens repris par le courant des Guyanes s’accumule en crème de vase plus ou moins fluide et forme des bancs larges de 10 à 20 km qui se déplacent le long de la côte ; le reste est surtout en suspension.
Synonyms
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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