séminaire
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,142
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
séminaire is aFrenchnoun. It means: Établissement religieux où l’on prépare les jeunes clercs à recevoir les ordres sacrés. Pronounced \se.mi.nɛʁ\. It ranks #6,142 in French word frequency. Often confused with similaire and séminaires.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | séminaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.mi.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,142 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for séminaire is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \se.mi.nɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,142 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for séminaire, with forms such as "seminaire", "sméinaire", and "sséminaire". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "similaire", "séminaires", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is séminaire, spelled S-É-M-I-N-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Établissement religieux où l’on prépare les jeunes clercs à recevoir les ordres sacrés.
- 2Ensemble des ecclésiastiques et des élèves qui demeurent dans un séminaire.
- 3Temps déterminé qu’on doit passer dans un séminaire pour être admis aux ordres sacrés.
- 4Établissement où l’on se forme à une profession quelconque.
- 5Groupe d'étudiants suivant un enseignement sur un thème particulier ou effectuant un travail pratique de recherche sous la direction d'un enseignant ; ensemble des séances de ce groupe.
- 6Réunion de professionnels en vue de l’étude d’un sujet particulier.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: seminaire,sméinaire,sséminaire,séimnaire,sémianire,séminaier,séminairre,séminarie,séminiare,séminnaire,sémminaire,sémniaire,ésminaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for séminaire
Misspelling Variants of "séminaire"
Frequency rank: #6,142 in French
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Nearby French words
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