sélectionné
\se.lɛk.sjɔ.ne\
The verdict
“sélectionné” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #6,901 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #6,901
- frequency rank, French
- 11
- letters
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Retenu·e comme candidat·e pour un prix ou une distinction.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sélectionné |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \se.lɛk.sjɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #6,901 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sélectionné” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sélectionné is 11 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \se.lɛk.sjɔ.ne\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,901 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Retenu·e comme candidat·e pour un prix ou une distinction.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for sélectionné, with forms such as "selectionne", "sléectionné", and "ssélectionné". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "sélections", "sélectionnés", "sélectionner", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sélectionné, spelled S-É-L-E-C-T-I-O-N-N-É.
Definition
- 1Retenu·e comme candidat·e pour un prix ou une distinction.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: selectionne,sléectionné,ssélectionné,séelctionné,sélcetionné,sélecctionné,sélecitonné,sélectinoné,sélectioné,sélectionén,sélectoinné,sélecttionné,séletcionné,séllectionné,éslectionné
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sélectionné - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “sélectionné”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-É-L-E-C-T-I-O-N-N-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \se.lɛk.sjɔ.ne\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “sélections” - see the side-by-side comparison. sélectionné vs sélections
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.