sémillant
\se.mi.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“sémillant” is uncommon French (frequency #95,371 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,371
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui montre une vivacité enjouée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-semillant · sémillant · French
sémillant · rank #95,371 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,371
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH synchronicité
Nearest frequency peer: synchronicité (-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 « sémillant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- surgie
surgie
4,633 corpus weight
- surintendan…
surintendance
4,632 corpus weight
- synchronici…
synchronicité
4,631 corpus weight
- sémillant
sémillant
4,630 corpus weight
- sévillan
sévillan
4,629 corpus weight
- tabernacles
tabernacles
4,628 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sémillant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sémillant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \se.mi.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sémillant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sémillant is uncommon French at frequency #95,371 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \se.mi.jɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sémillant, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sémillant, spelled S-É-M-I-L-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui montre une vivacité enjouée.
- 2Qui est extrêmement vif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sémillant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au milieu de ces salons remplis de femmes élégantes et belles, Julie triompha de la comtesse. Spirituelle, vive, sémillante, elle eut autour d’elle les hommes les plus distingués de la soirée.
[…] cette première entrevue, où Mendès sémillant, enhardi, épanoui, est le bouffon, et Villiers et Mallarmé méconnus, miséreux, sont les seigneurs […]. — (Henri Mondor, Vie de Mallarmé, Gallimard, 1941, page 137)
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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