séminaires
\se.mi.nɛʁ\
The verdict
“séminaires” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,491. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,491
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de séminaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-seminaires · séminaires · French
séminaires · rank #16,491 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,491
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH tactile
Nearest frequency peer: tactile (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « séminaires »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- stupéfiants
stupéfiants
83,514 corpus weight
- substitut
substitut
83,513 corpus weight
- suicidaire
suicidaire
83,512 corpus weight
- séminaires
séminaires
83,510 corpus weight
- tactile
tactile
83,509 corpus weight
- tan
tan
83,508 corpus weight
What this shows « séminaires » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | séminaires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.mi.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #16,491 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « séminaires »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around séminaires (IPA \se.mi.nɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,491 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de séminaire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for séminaires, with forms such as "seminaires", "sméinaires", and "sséminaires". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "similaires", "séminaire", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is séminaires, spelled S-É-M-I-N-A-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de séminaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how séminaires appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce fut seulement au XVIe siècle et pour contre-réformer qu’à côté des écoles publiques où elle régnait, l’Église commença d’instituer des séminaires pour l’éducation spéciale des prêtres, trop exposés dans les Universités à la contagion de l’hérésie.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- seminaires
- sméinaires
- sséminaires
- séimnaires
- sémianires
- séminaiers
- séminairess
- séminairres
- séminairse
- séminaries
- séminiares
- séminnaires
- sémminaires
- sémniaires
- ésminaires
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of séminaires - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).