Séleucides
\se.lø.sid\
The verdict
“Séleucides” is uncommon French (frequency #79,780 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,780
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Famille de rois grecs, descendant de Seleucus, général d’Alexandre, qui ont régné dans l’Asie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-seleucides · Séleucides · French
Séleucides · rank #79,780 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,780
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sécessionniste
Nearest frequency peer: sécessionniste (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Séleucides »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- syriaques
syriaques
20,223 corpus weight
- sécessionni…
sécessionniste
20,222 corpus weight
- Séleucides
Séleucides
20,221 corpus weight
- tabagique
tabagique
20,219 corpus weight
- tabassée
tabassée
20,218 corpus weight
- taboue
taboue
20,217 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Séleucides » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Séleucides |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \se.lø.sid\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #79,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Séleucides » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Séleucides is uncommon French at frequency #79,780 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \se.lø.sid\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Famille de rois grecs, descendant de Seleucus, général d’Alexandre, qui ont régné dans l’Asie.".
Séleucides has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Séleucides, spelled S-É-L-E-U-C-I-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Famille de rois grecs, descendant de Seleucus, général d’Alexandre, qui ont régné dans l’Asie.
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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