semonce
\sə.mɔ̃s\
The verdict
“semonce” is uncommon French (frequency #54,901 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,901
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de sommer, d’inviter quelqu’un à faire quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-semonce · semonce · French
semonce · rank #54,901 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,901
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sema
Nearest frequency peer: sema (-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 « semonce »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sectoriels
sectoriels
45,103 corpus weight
- seiche
seiche
45,102 corpus weight
- sema
sema
45,101 corpus weight
- semonce
semonce
45,100 corpus weight
- sensitive
sensitive
45,099 corpus weight
- sima
sima
45,097 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « semonce » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | semonce |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sə.mɔ̃s\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,901 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « semonce » en français
Rare enough to double-check
semonce is uncommon French at frequency #54,901 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sə.mɔ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for semonce, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is semonce, spelled S-E-M-O-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Action de sommer, d’inviter quelqu’un à faire quelque chose.
- 2Sommation faite par un navire à un autre de se faire reconnaître.
- 3Avertissement mêlé de reproches fait par quelqu’un qui a autorité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how semonce appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il aidait beaucoup plus les enfants à faire des petits bateaux et des cocottes avec leurs abécédaires qu’il ne leur apprenait à lire ; il les grondait si curieusement, quand ils avaient chippé des fruits, que ses semonces pouvaient passer pour des leçons sur la manière d’escalader les murs.
— Je serai franc, dit-il enfin, la franchise est la base de mon caractère. Barthélemy est le seul cordonnier pour femmes de la ville. Les autres chaussent les femmes du peuple… et mes filles n’ont jamais voulu consentir… Mais je lui ai fait une bonne semonce.
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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