sembler
\sɑ̃.ble\
The verdict
“sembler” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,577. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,577
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Paraître avoir une certaine qualité ou une certaine manière d’être ; avoir l’air, l’apparence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sembler · sembler · French
sembler · rank #10,577 · 11 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,577
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH serbe
Nearest frequency peer: serbe (+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 « sembler »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- revenait
revenait
89,428 corpus weight
- répondez
répondez
89,426 corpus weight
- sembler
sembler
89,424 corpus weight
- serbe
serbe
89,423 corpus weight
- serviteur
serviteur
89,422 corpus weight
- sexuellement
sexuellement
89,421 corpus weight
What this shows « sembler » 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 | sembler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.ble\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,577 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sembler »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around sembler (IPA \sɑ̃.ble\), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,577 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for sembler, with forms such as "esmbler", "sebmler", and "sembbler". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "semer", "sembles", "sombrer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 sembler, spelled S-E-M-B-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Paraître avoir une certaine qualité ou une certaine manière d’être ; avoir l’air, l’apparence.
- 2Être apparemment, du point de vue de quelqu’un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sembler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Mais, demanda Scaër, vous sembliez craindre tout à l’heure qu'on espionnât ce brave garçon... Pourquoi ?
L’administration romaine était extrêmement dure pour tout homme qui lui semblait susceptible de troubler la tranquillité publique.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esmbler
- sebmler
- sembbler
- sembelr
- semblerr
- sembller
- semblre
- semlber
- semmbler
- smebler
- ssembler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sembler - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sembler", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).