Seltz
\sɛlts\
The verdict
“Seltz” is uncommon French (frequency #71,907 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,907
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Bas-Rhin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-seltz · Seltz · French
Seltz · rank #71,907 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,907
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scissions
Nearest frequency peer: scissions (-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 « Seltz »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- scat
scat
28,098 corpus weight
- scholastique
scholastique
28,097 corpus weight
- scissions
scissions
28,096 corpus weight
- Seltz
Seltz
28,094 corpus weight
- septentrion…
septentrionaux
28,092 corpus weight
- sermonner
sermonner
28,091 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Seltz » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Seltz |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sɛlts\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #71,907 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Seltz » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Seltz is uncommon French at frequency #71,907 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \sɛlts\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département du Bas-Rhin.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Seltz in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Seltz, spelled S-E-L-T-Z.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Bas-Rhin.
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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