semez
\sə.me\
The verdict
“semez” is uncommon French (frequency #75,216 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,216
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de semer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-semez · semez · French
semez · rank #75,216 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,216
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH segundo
Nearest frequency peer: segundo (-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 « semez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- seem
seem
24,788 corpus weight
- Segalen
Segalen
24,787 corpus weight
- segundo
segundo
24,786 corpus weight
- semez
semez
24,785 corpus weight
- sempiternel
sempiternel
24,784 corpus weight
- serbo
serbo
24,783 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « semez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | semez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sə.me\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,216 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « semez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
semez is uncommon French at frequency #75,216 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sə.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for semez, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is semez, spelled S-E-M-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de semer.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de semer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how semez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous semez les graines pour votre avenir.
Semez des engrais verts : seigle, colza fourrager, phacélie…
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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