sèment
\sɛm\
The verdict
“sèment” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,175. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,175
- frequency rank, French
- 394,209
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de semer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sement · sèment · French
sèment · rank #36,175 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,175
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 394,209
- PHOTO-FINISH symboliser
Nearest frequency peer: symboliser (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “sèment”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- surpassé
surpassé
63,829 corpus weight
- swap
swap
63,828 corpus weight
- symboliser
symboliser
63,827 corpus weight
- sèment
sèment
63,826 corpus weight
- Tahar
Tahar
63,824 corpus weight
- tale
tale
63,823 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “sèment” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | sèment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɛm\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #36,175 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sèment” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around sèment (IPA \sɛm\), averb. Corpus frequency is #36,175 among 394,209 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sèment, with forms such as "sement", "smèent", and "ssèment". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sent", "smet", "semer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sèment, spelled S-È-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de semer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de semer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sement
- smèent
- ssèment
- sèemnt
- sèmennt
- sèmentt
- sèmetn
- sèmment
- sèmnet
- èsment
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sèment - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sèment", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).
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.