seillon
\sɛ.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“seillon” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Seau de bois à une anse pour la traite des vaches.
Corpus desk
Index FR-seillon · seillon · French
seillon · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | seillon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « seillon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
seillon is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛ.jɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for seillon in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is seillon, spelled S-E-I-L-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Seau de bois à une anse pour la traite des vaches.
- 2Ancienne mesure d’arpentage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how seillon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En Bretagne on les mesure par journal, lequel est en cette Province de 22 seillons un tiers. Le seillon de 6 raies.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.