séjour
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,647
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
séjour is aFrenchnoun. It means: Demeure, résidence plus ou moins longue dans un lieu, dans un pays. Pronounced \se.ʒuʁ\. It ranks #2,647 in French word frequency. Often confused with sour and Séoul.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | séjour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.ʒuʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,647 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for séjour is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \se.ʒuʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,647 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for séjour, with forms such as "sejour", "sjéour", and "sséjour". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "sour", "Séoul", "séjours", 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 séjour, spelled S-É-J-O-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Demeure, résidence plus ou moins longue dans un lieu, dans un pays.
- 2Temps qu’un bâtiment de guerre passe en relâche.
- 3Arrêt des liquides qui restent plus ou moins longtemps en quelque endroit.
- 4Par métonymie, temps passé dans un lieu déterminé.
- 5Lieu considéré par rapport à l’habitation, à la demeure qu’on y fait ou qu’on y peut faire.
- 6Salle, pièce où l’on se tient habituellement.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sejour,sjéour,sséjour,séjjour,séjoru,séjourr,séjuor,séojur,ésjour
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for séjour
Misspelling Variants of "séjour"
Frequency rank: #2,647 in French
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