semeur
\sə.mœʁ\
The verdict
“semeur” is uncommon French (frequency #63,349 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,349
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui sème du grain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-semeur · semeur · French
semeur · rank #63,349 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,349
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH serrais
Nearest frequency peer: serrais (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « semeur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- seigneurial…
seigneuriales
36,655 corpus weight
- seizièmes
seizièmes
36,654 corpus weight
- semeur
semeur
36,652 corpus weight
- serrais
serrais
36,651 corpus weight
- seventies
seventies
36,650 corpus weight
- shout
shout
36,648 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « semeur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | semeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sə.mœʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,349 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « semeur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
semeur is uncommon French at frequency #63,349 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sə.mœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui sème du grain.".
semeur has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is semeur, spelled S-E-M-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui sème du grain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how semeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et il esquisse dans l’air des gestes de semeur, au ralenti.
Un semeur habile et diligent.
This word in other languages
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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