seek
\siːk\
The verdict
“seek” is uncommon French (frequency #77,921 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,921
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chercher, chercher à obtenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-seek · seek · French
seek · rank #77,921 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,921
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH SDA
Nearest frequency peer: SDA (-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 « seek »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- scoubidou
scoubidou
22,083 corpus weight
- scrutent
scrutent
22,082 corpus weight
- SDA
SDA
22,081 corpus weight
- seek
seek
22,080 corpus weight
- Sekou
Sekou
22,079 corpus weight
- Sendai
Sendai
22,078 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « seek » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | seek |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \siːk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #77,921 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « seek » en français
Rare enough to double-check
seek is uncommon French at frequency #77,921 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \siːk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
seek doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 seek, spelled S-E-E-K.
Definition
- 1Chercher, chercher à obtenir.
- 2solliciter, demander.
- 3Rechercher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how seek appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I seek wisdom.
to seek advice
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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