séduire
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,900
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
séduire is aFrenchverb. It means: Égarer, abuser, faire tomber dans l’erreur par ses insinuations, par ses écrits, par ses discours, par ses exemples, etc. Pronounced \se.dɥiʁ\. It ranks #6,900 in French word frequency. Often confused with séduit and séduite.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | séduire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \se.dɥiʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,900 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for séduire is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \se.dɥiʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,900 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for séduire, with forms such as "sdéuire", "seduire", and "sséduire". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "séduit", "séduite", "séduits", 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 séduire, spelled S-É-D-U-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Égarer, abuser, faire tomber dans l’erreur par ses insinuations, par ses écrits, par ses discours, par ses exemples, etc.
- 2Faire tomber en faute ; suborner ; corrompre ; débaucher.
- 3Convaincre de commencer une relation amoureuse.
- 4Toucher, plaire, persuader.
- 5Il s’emploie absolument, surtout dans la dernière acception.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sdéuire,seduire,sséduire,sédduire,sédiure,séduier,séduirre,sédurie,séudire,ésduire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for séduire
Misspelling Variants of "séduire"
Frequency rank: #6,900 in French
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Nearby French words
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