sémantique
French, noun/se.mɑ̃.tik/
sémantique is spelled S-É-M-A-N-T-I-Q-U-E (10 letters) and appears 4.1 times per million words in written French, the 12,924th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sémantique is a French feminine noun meaning “semantics” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Étude de la signification des mots et des propositions”.
What does sémantique mean in English?
adjective
- 1
semantic
champ sémantique
noun
- 1
femininesemantics
la sémantique formelle
- 2
femininemeaning, signification
Les copules, qui se réduisent au rôle de lien syntaxique entre sujet et attribut en estompant leur sémantique propre, sont souvent des verbes d'état.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Relatif à la signification et au sens des unités linguistiques. 2. Qui a un sens, en parlant d’une phrase, par opposition à asémantique.
noun: 1. Étude de la signification des mots et des propositions. 2. Art de mouvoir les troupes à l’aide de signaux.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of sémantique
- sémantiques plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sémantique?
- /se.mɑ̃.tik/
- \se.mɑ̃.tik\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sémantique
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sémantique in French?
sémantique appears 4.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).