seigneurie

\sɛ.ɲœ.ʁi\

/\sɛ.ɲœ.ʁi\/ noun

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The verdict

“seigneurie” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,670. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#12,670
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Droit, puissance, autorité qu’un homme a sur la terre dont il est seigneur et sur tout ce qui en relève.

Corpus desk

Index FR-seigneurie · seigneurie · French

seigneurie · rank #12,670 · 13 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #12,670
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH secrètement

Nearest frequency peer: secrètement (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « seigneurie »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « seigneurie » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

seigneurie vs seigneurs
80% similar
seigneurie vs seigneuries
91% similar
seigneurie vs seigneur
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for seigneurie
PropertyValue
Headwordseigneurie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɛ.ɲœ.ʁi\
Letters10
Frequency rank#12,670
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « seigneurie »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).seigneuriese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « secrètement » (#12,669), « say » (#12,668), « Sonia » (#12,672). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « seigneurie » est au #12,670. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around seigneurie (IPA \sɛ.ɲœ.ʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,670 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for seigneurie, with forms such as "esigneurie", "segineurie", and "seigenurie". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "seigneurs", "seigneuries", "seigneur", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is seigneurie, spelled S-E-I-G-N-E-U-R-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Droit, puissance, autorité qu’un homme a sur la terre dont il est seigneur et sur tout ce qui en relève.
  2. 2
    Pouvoir, autorité du Christ en tant que Seigneur.
  3. 3
    Mouvances, droits féodaux d’une terre, indépendamment de la terre même.
  4. 4
    Terre seigneuriale.
  5. 5
    Titre d’honneur qu’on donnait à des personnes investies de certaines dignités, et, entre autres, aux pairs de France sous la Restauration.
  6. 6
    Il se dit encore à des gens avec qui l’on est très familier.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how seigneurie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La terre et seigneurie de tel lieu.
  2. La seigneurie de cette terre s’étendait fort loin.

Synonyms

fief

This word in other languages

manor(English)señorío(Español)Herrschaft(Deutsch)título(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • esigneurie
  • segineurie
  • seigenurie
  • seiggneurie
  • seigneruie
  • seigneuire
  • seigneurei
  • seigneurrie
  • seignneurie
  • seignuerie
  • seingeurie
  • siegneurie
  • sseigneurie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of seigneurie - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

esigneurie2segineurie2seigenurie2seiggneurie1seigneruie2seigneuire2seigneurei2seigneurrie1
Edit distance from "seigneurie"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "seigneurie"?
"seigneurie" is spelled S-E-I-G-N-E-U-R-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sɛ.ɲœ.ʁi\.
What does "seigneurie" mean?
As a noun, "seigneurie" means: Droit, puissance, autorité qu’un homme a sur la terre dont il est seigneur et sur tout ce qui en relève.
What words are commonly confused with "seigneurie"?
"seigneurie" is commonly confused with "seigneurs", "seigneuries", "seigneur". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "seigneurie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "seigneurie" is \sɛ.ɲœ.ʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "seigneurie" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "seigneurie", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

réunissent#12,667souterrain#12,673stagiaires#12,675subitement#12,676

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

tactiques13 variantsrecueillies13 variantsTremblay13 variantsprocesseur13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list