séfarade
\se.fa.ʁad\
The verdict
“séfarade” is uncommon French (frequency #97,465 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,465
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux Juifs espagnols, à leur culture et leur diaspora à la suite de leur expulsion d’Espagne en 1492.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sefarade · séfarade · French
séfarade · rank #97,465 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,465
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH séduise
Nearest frequency peer: séduise (-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 « séfarade »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sway
sway
2,539 corpus weight
- systematic
systematic
2,538 corpus weight
- séduise
séduise
2,537 corpus weight
- séfarade
séfarade
2,536 corpus weight
- Séleucie
Séleucie
2,534 corpus weight
- Tages
Tages
2,532 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « séfarade » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « séfarade » en français
Rare enough to double-check
séfarade is uncommon French at frequency #97,465 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \se.fa.ʁad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how séfarade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le judaïsme séfarade.
La musique séfarade.
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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