semen
The verdict
“semen” is uncommon French (frequency #96,373 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,373
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Graine, semence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-semen · semen · French
semen · rank #96,373 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,373
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sertis
Nearest frequency peer: sertis (+2 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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « semen »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- scolairement
scolairement
3,633 corpus weight
- Scorpius
Scorpius
3,632 corpus weight
- Seberg
Seberg
3,631 corpus weight
- semen
semen
3,628 corpus weight
- sertis
sertis
3,626 corpus weight
- sexualiser
sexualiser
3,624 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « semen » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | semen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #96,373 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « semen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
semen is uncommon French at frequency #96,373 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for semen in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is semen, spelled S-E-M-E-N.
Definition
- 1Graine, semence.
- 2Race, souche, origine.
- 3Principe (de l'eau, du feu, de l'air...), élément, molécule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how semen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
ponere plantâ aut semine
boni seminis pecus
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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