segment
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,160
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
segment is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie de la ligne droite située entre deux points. Pronounced \sɛɡ.mɑ̃\. It ranks #8,160 in French word frequency. Often confused with sèment and semant.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | segment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛɡ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,160 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for segment is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛɡ.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,160 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for segment, with forms such as "esgment", "segemnt", and "seggment". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "sèment", "semant", "servent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is segment, spelled S-E-G-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie de la ligne droite située entre deux points.
- 2Portion de figure définie.
- 3Désigne la partie d’un organe distincte d’une autre partie, bien que continue avec elle.
- 4Sorte d’anneau métallique placé autour d’un piston pour assurer l’étanchéité du cylindre dans lequel se meut le piston.
- 5Ensemble de sujets sur lesquels va porter une étude (ex : catégorie de produits, de clients, secteur d’activité...).
- 6Portion de mémoire physique ou virtuelle, caractérisée par une adresse de début et une taille, sur laquelle des données vont être adressées.
- 7Au niveau du protocole TCP, regroupement d’informations en ensemble logique de données utilisé pour la communication entre couches réseau.
- 8Données enregistrées en séquence continue par un système imageur, fonctionnant suivant un mode déterminé, pendant un intervalle de temps déterminé.
- 9Unité la plus faible de découpage du signal sonore.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esgment,segemnt,seggment,segmennt,segmentt,segmetn,segmment,segmnet,semgent,sgement,ssegment
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for segment
Misspelling Variants of "segment"
Frequency rank: #8,160 in French
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