semaine
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#321
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
semaine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Séquence constituée des sept jours : lundi, mardi, mercredi, jeudi, vendredi, samedi et dimanche. Chaque date a un seul jour de la semaine dans cet ordre, mais le commencement de la semaine dépend ... Pronounced \sə.mɛn\. It ranks #321 in French word frequency. Often confused with semant and sereine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | semaine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sə.mɛn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #321 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for semaine is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sə.mɛn\. Corpus data places it at rank #321 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for semaine, with forms such as "esmaine", "seamine", and "semaien". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "semant", "sereine", "Seraing", 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 semaine, spelled S-E-M-A-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Séquence constituée des sept jours : lundi, mardi, mercredi, jeudi, vendredi, samedi et dimanche. Chaque date a un seul jour de la semaine dans cet ordre, mais le commencement de la semaine dépend de la tradition locale.
- 2Une tranche de sept jours à partir de la date courante (semaine flottante).
- 3Période de cinq jours travaillés (du lundi au vendredi) au sein des sept jours de la semaine, par opposition à la fin de semaine (ou week-end).
- 4Temps légal de travail pendant une semaine.
- 5Salaire obtenu au bout d’une semaine de travail.
- 6Durée d’une campagne publicitaire.
- 7Ensemble de sept objets de même nature.
- 8Période de menstruation, règles.
- 9Espèce de conciergerie assurée par une permanence à tour de rôle des sous-officiers et des hommes de troupe et qui dure une semaine.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esmaine,seamine,semaien,semainne,semanie,semiane,semmaine,smeaine,ssemaine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for semaine
Misspelling Variants of "semaine"
Frequency rank: #321 in French
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