sembla
The verdict
“sembla” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,155. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,155
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue mandée parlée au Burkina Faso.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sembla · sembla · French
sembla · rank #36,155 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,155
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sei
Nearest frequency peer: sei (-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 « sembla »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- saunier
saunier
63,849 corpus weight
- sauveurs
sauveurs
63,848 corpus weight
- sei
sei
63,847 corpus weight
- sembla
sembla
63,846 corpus weight
- send
send
63,845 corpus weight
- sentimental…
sentimentales
63,844 corpus weight
What this shows « sembla » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | sembla |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #36,155 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sembla »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around sembla, anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,155 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Langue mandée parlée au Burkina Faso.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for sembla, with forms such as "esmbla", "sebmla", and "sembal". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "simba", "semble", "sembler", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is sembla, spelled S-E-M-B-L-A.
Definition
- 1Langue mandée parlée au Burkina Faso.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sembla appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le sembla est connu par l’esquisse qu’en a donné le Père PROST.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esmbla
- sebmla
- sembal
- sembbla
- semblla
- semlba
- semmbla
- smebla
- ssembla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sembla - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sembla", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).