seif
\zaɪ̯f\
The verdict
“seif” is uncommon French (frequency #95,316 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,316
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de seifen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-seif · seif · French
seif · rank #95,316 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,316
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH semeuse
Nearest frequency peer: semeuse (+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 « seif »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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scopolamine
4,690 corpus weight
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seder
4,688 corpus weight
- seif
seif
4,685 corpus weight
- semeuse
semeuse
4,684 corpus weight
- semons
semons
4,683 corpus weight
- septimus
septimus
4,681 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « seif » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | seif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \zaɪ̯f\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #95,316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « seif » en français
Rare enough to double-check
seif is uncommon French at frequency #95,316 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \zaɪ̯f\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de seifen.".
No misspelling variants are generated for seif in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is seif, spelled S-E-I-F.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de seifen.
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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