semaine
\sə.mɛn\
The verdict
“semaine” is in the everyday core of French, ranked #321 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #321
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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 ...
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 | 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) |
Where “semaine” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for semaine is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for semaine, with forms such as "esmaine", "seamine", and "semaien". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "semant", "sereine", "Seraing", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is semaine, spelled S-E-M-A-I-N-E.
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.
Antonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esmaine,seamine,semaien,semainne,semanie,semiane,semmaine,smeaine,ssemaine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of semaine - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “semaine”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-E-M-A-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sə.mɛn\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “semant” - see the side-by-side comparison. semaine vs semant
- 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.