semer le doute
\sə.me lə dut\
The verdict
“semer le doute” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Créer le doute ; plonger dans l’incertitude.
Corpus desk
Index FR-semer-le-doute · semer le doute · French
semer le doute · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | semer le doute |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sə.me lə dut\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
semer le doute is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \sə.me lə dut\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Créer le doute ; plonger dans l’incertitude.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for semer le doute, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is semer le doute, spelled S-E-M-E-R- -L-E- -D-O-U-T-E.
Definition
- 1Créer le doute ; plonger dans l’incertitude.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how semer le doute appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut donc trouver un argument-massue, un argument capable de semer le doute dans l’âme des ouvriers, d’ébranler leur confiance, d’amener des défections de plus en plus nombreuses, puis des désertions massives.
C’est cet article-là, sur le syndrome de Paris, qui m’avait mis la puce à l’oreille, et avait semé le doute dans mon esprit.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.