sembla
The verdict
“sembla” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #36,155 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #36,155
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Langue mandée parlée au Burkina Faso.
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) |
Where “sembla” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sembla is 6 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #36,155 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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Using “sembla”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-E-M-B-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “simba” - see the side-by-side comparison. sembla vs simba
- 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.