sémantique

\se.mɑ̃.tik\

/\se.mɑ̃.tik\/ adj

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The verdict

“sémantique” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,077. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#13,077
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la signification et au sens des unités linguistiques.

Corpus desk

Index FR-semantique · sémantique · French

sémantique · rank #13,077 · 15 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #13,077
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH syndical

Nearest frequency peer: syndical (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « sémantique »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « sémantique » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

sémantique vs sémantiques
91% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for sémantique
PropertyValue
Headwordsémantique
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\se.mɑ̃.tik\
Letters10
Frequency rank#13,077
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sémantique »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.sémantiquese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « syndical » (#13,076), « tais » (#13,078), « suspense » (#13,075). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sémantique » est au #13,077. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around sémantique (IPA \se.mɑ̃.tik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,077 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for sémantique, with forms such as "semantique", "sméantique", and "ssémantique". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "sémantiques", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 sémantique, spelled S-É-M-A-N-T-I-Q-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relatif à la signification et au sens des unités linguistiques.
  2. 2
    Qui a un sens, en parlant d’une phrase, par opposition à asémantique.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how sémantique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L’aire sémantique de aéronef avec cette signification y est délimitée par rapport à aérostat désignant un ballon non dirigeable et aéronat réservé au ballon dirigeable.
  2. Le second obstacle sémantique qui s’oppose à ce qu’on considère que "-aille" construit du collectif, c’est le fait que le nom de base auquel s’applique ce suffixe peut ne pas renvoyer à des individus.

Antonyms

asémantique

This word in other languages

semantic(English)semántico(Español)semantisch(Deutsch)semântico(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • semantique
  • sméantique
  • ssémantique
  • séamntique
  • sémanitque
  • sémanntique
  • sémantiqeu
  • sémantiqque
  • sémantiuqe
  • sémantqiue
  • sémanttique
  • sématnique
  • sémmantique
  • sémnatique
  • ésmantique

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sémantique - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

semantique1sméantique2ssémantique1séamntique2sémanitque2sémanntique1sémantiqeu2sémantiqque1
Edit distance from "sémantique"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sémantique"?
"sémantique" is spelled S-É-M-A-N-T-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \se.mɑ̃.tik\.
What does "sémantique" mean?
As an adjective, "sémantique" means: Relatif à la signification et au sens des unités linguistiques.
What words are commonly confused with "sémantique"?
"sémantique" is commonly confused with "sémantiques". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sémantique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sémantique" is \se.mɑ̃.tik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sémantique" come from?
"sémantique" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sémantique", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

ajustement15 variantsplanétaire15 variantspatriarche15 variantscherchons15 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list