segment

/\sɛɡ.mɑ̃\/ noun

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.

Key facts for segment
PropertyValue
Headwordsegment
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɛɡ.mɑ̃\
Letters7
Frequency rank#8,160
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of segment in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Partie de la ligne droite située entre deux points.
  2. 2
    Portion de figure définie.
  3. 3
    Désigne la partie d’un organe distincte d’une autre partie, bien que continue avec elle.
  4. 4
    Sorte d’anneau métallique placé autour d’un piston pour assurer l’étanchéité du cylindre dans lequel se meut le piston.
  5. 5
    Ensemble de sujets sur lesquels va porter une étude (ex : catégorie de produits, de clients, secteur d’activité...).
  6. 6
    Portion de mémoire physique ou virtuelle, caractérisée par une adresse de début et une taille, sur laquelle des données vont être adressées.
  7. 7
    Au niveau du protocole TCP, regroupement d’informations en ensemble logique de données utilisé pour la communication entre couches réseau.
  8. 8
    Données enregistrées en séquence continue par un système imageur, fonctionnant suivant un mode déterminé, pendant un intervalle de temps déterminé.
  9. 9
    Unité la plus faible de découpage du signal sonore.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

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"

esgment7segemnt7seggment8segmennt8segmentt8segmetn7segmment8segmnet7
Misspelling Variants of "segment"

Frequency rank: #8,160 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "segment"?
"segment" is spelled S-E-G-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \sɛɡ.mɑ̃\.
What does "segment" mean?
As a noun, "segment" means: Partie de la ligne droite située entre deux points.
What words are commonly confused with "segment"?
"segment" is commonly confused with "sèment", "semant", "servent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "segment"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "segment" is \sɛɡ.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "segment" come from?
"segment" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.