Séguy
\se.ɡi\
The verdict
“Séguy” is uncommon French (frequency #72,777 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,777
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-seguy · Séguy · French
Séguy · rank #72,777 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,777
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sédentarisati…
Nearest frequency peer: sédentarisation (-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 « Séguy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- surhommes
surhommes
27,227 corpus weight
- suspectent
suspectent
27,226 corpus weight
- sédentarisa…
sédentarisation
27,225 corpus weight
- Séguy
Séguy
27,224 corpus weight
- séropositive
séropositive
27,223 corpus weight
- Sézanne
Sézanne
27,222 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Séguy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Séguy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \se.ɡi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #72,777 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Séguy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Séguy is uncommon French at frequency #72,777 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \se.ɡi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Séguy, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Séguy, spelled S-É-G-U-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Séguy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette start-up, installée à Château-Thierry (Aisne), à une centaine de kilomètres au nord-est de Paris, et cofondée par Gilles Dreyfus et Nicolas Séguy, produit, dans un grand hangar, des herbes aromatiques (basilic, persil, coriandre…), des micropousses (moutarde, wasabi…) et des salades (laitue, roquette).
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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