Séleucie
\se.lø.si\
The verdict
“Séleucie” is uncommon French (frequency #97,467 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,467
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de plusieurs villes antiques fondées par les Séleucides.
Corpus desk
Index FR-seleucie · Séleucie · French
Séleucie · rank #97,467 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,467
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH séfarade
Nearest frequency peer: séfarade (-2 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 « Séleucie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- systematic
systematic
2,538 corpus weight
- séduise
séduise
2,537 corpus weight
- séfarade
séfarade
2,536 corpus weight
- Séleucie
Séleucie
2,534 corpus weight
- Tages
Tages
2,532 corpus weight
- tague
tague
2,531 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Séleucie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Séleucie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \se.lø.si\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,467 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Séleucie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Séleucie is uncommon French at frequency #97,467 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \se.lø.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de plusieurs villes antiques fondées par les Séleucides.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Séleucie, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Séleucie, spelled S-É-L-E-U-C-I-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de plusieurs villes antiques fondées par les Séleucides.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Séleucie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vingt-cinq métropolitains ou archevêques composaient leur hiérarchie ; mais plusieurs d’entre eux, à raison de la distance et des dangers du voyage, furent dispensés de l’obligation de se présenter en personne, sous la condition facile à remplir, que tous les six ans ils fourniraient un témoignage de leur foi et de leur obéissance au catholique ou patriar…
This word in other languages
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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