sel
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,293
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sel is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom courant du chlorure de sodium, composé ionique, friable, soluble dans l’eau, que l’on extrait de la mer, de sources salées, de mines, et dont on se sert surtout pour assaisonner et conserver le... Pronounced \sɛl\. It ranks #3,293 in French word frequency. Often confused with si and st.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛl\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,293 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sel is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,293 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for sel in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "si", "st", "su", 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 sel, spelled S-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom courant du chlorure de sodium, composé ionique, friable, soluble dans l’eau, que l’on extrait de la mer, de sources salées, de mines, et dont on se sert surtout pour assaisonner et conserver les aliments.
- 2Molécule de charge électrique nulle composée au moins d’un anion et d’un cation et qui est le résultat d’une réaction chimique de neutralisation entre un acide et une base.
- 3Sel volatil que l’on respire pour ranimer ses esprits.
- 4Ce qu’il y a de fin, de vif, de piquant.
- 5Octets ajoutés au hasard à un message avant son cryptage, afin d'augmenter la difficulté de retrouver ce dernier par piratage.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #3,293 in French
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