séfarade
\se.fa.ʁad\
The verdict
“séfarade” is an uncommon French word, ranked #97,465 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #97,465
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Relatif aux Juifs espagnols, à leur culture et leur diaspora à la suite de leur expulsion d’Espagne en 1492.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | séfarade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \se.fa.ʁad\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “séfarade” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for séfarade is 8 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \se.fa.ʁad\. Corpus data places it at rank #97,465 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for séfarade in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is séfarade, spelled S-É-F-A-R-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux Juifs espagnols, à leur culture et leur diaspora à la suite de leur expulsion d’Espagne en 1492.
- 2Désigne aussi souvent les Juifs non ashkénazes qui ont adopté le rite séfarade au contact des Juifs issus de l’émigration consécutive à l’expulsion des Juifs d’Espagne.
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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Using “séfarade”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-É-F-A-R-A-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \se.fa.ʁad\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.