sémillon
French, noun/se.mi.jɔ̃/
sémillon is spelled S-É-M-I-L-L-O-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 113,280th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sémillon is a French masculine noun meaning “Sémillon (grape and wine)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Cépage donnant des grains de raisin blancs tirant sur le rose à complète maturité et ayant un goût légèrement…”.
What does sémillon mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineSémillon (grape and wine)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Cépage donnant des grains de raisin blancs tirant sur le rose à complète maturité et ayant un goût légèrement muscaté, et qui est souvent utilisé pour la production des vins blancs moelleux et liquoreux.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of sémillon
- sémillons plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sémillon?
- /se.mi.jɔ̃/
- \se.mi.jɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is sémillon in French?
sémillon appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).