seem
\siːm\
The verdict
“seem” is uncommon French (frequency #75,213 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,213
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sembler, paraître.
Corpus desk
Index FR-seem · seem · French
seem · rank #75,213 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,213
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH secouait
Nearest frequency peer: secouait (-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 « seem »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- seconda
seconda
24,790 corpus weight
- secouait
secouait
24,789 corpus weight
- seem
seem
24,788 corpus weight
- Segalen
Segalen
24,787 corpus weight
- segundo
segundo
24,786 corpus weight
- semez
semez
24,785 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « seem » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | seem |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \siːm\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #75,213 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « seem » en français
Rare enough to double-check
seem is uncommon French at frequency #75,213 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \siːm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sembler, paraître.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for seem, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is seem, spelled S-E-E-M.
Definition
- 1Sembler, paraître.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how seem appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He seems to be ill.
Her eyes seem blue.
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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