seed
\siːd\
The verdict
“seed” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,533) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,533
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Graine, pépin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-seed · seed · French
seed · rank #41,533 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,533
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH seen
Nearest frequency peer: seen (+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 « seed »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- sautait
sautait
58,472 corpus weight
- Scheer
Scheer
58,470 corpus weight
- seed
seed
58,468 corpus weight
- seen
seen
58,467 corpus weight
- serval
serval
58,466 corpus weight
- shaker
shaker
58,464 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « seed » 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 | seed |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \siːd\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #41,533 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « seed »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for seed is neighbouring look-alikes ("ses", "sud", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \siːd\. Frequency #41,533 among 6,032 “S” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for seed, with forms such as "esed", "sede", and "seedd". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ses", "sud", "sel", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is seed, spelled S-E-E-D.
Definition
- 1Graine, pépin.
- 2Sperme.
- 3Progéniture.
- 4Tête de série.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esed
- sede
- seedd
- sseed
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of seed - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).