Semois
\sə.mwa\
The verdict
“Semois” is uncommon French (frequency #99,634 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,634
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rivière de Belgique et de France, affluent de la Meuse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-semois · Semois · French
Semois · rank #99,634 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,634
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH senatus
Nearest frequency peer: senatus (+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 « Semois »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Schnitzler
Schnitzler
372 corpus weight
- secundus
secundus
370 corpus weight
- Semois
Semois
367 corpus weight
- senatus
senatus
366 corpus weight
- sensori
sensori
365 corpus weight
- serkis
serkis
364 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Semois » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Semois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sə.mwa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #99,634 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Semois » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Semois is uncommon French at frequency #99,634 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \sə.mwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rivière de Belgique et de France, affluent de la Meuse.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Semois in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Semois, spelled S-E-M-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Rivière de Belgique et de France, affluent de la Meuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Semois appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette ancienne ardoisière est située dans la vallée de la Semois, en rive droite de la rivière, entre Rochehaut et son petit hameau, Laviot.
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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