sémite
\se.mit\
The verdict
“sémite” is uncommon French (frequency #67,151 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,151
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux Sémites.
Corpus desk
Index FR-semite · sémite · French
sémite · rank #67,151 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,151
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH séminariste
Nearest frequency peer: séminariste (-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 « sémite »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- séchant
séchant
32,854 corpus weight
- sécrètent
sécrètent
32,853 corpus weight
- séducteurs
séducteurs
32,852 corpus weight
- séminariste
séminariste
32,851 corpus weight
- sémite
sémite
32,850 corpus weight
- tahitien
tahitien
32,849 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sémite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sémite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \se.mit\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,151 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sémite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sémite is uncommon French at frequency #67,151 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \se.mit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif aux Sémites.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sémite, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is sémite, spelled S-É-M-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux Sémites.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sémite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le type sémite.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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