semondre
\sə.mɔ̃dʁ\
The verdict
“semondre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inviter à une cérémonie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-semondre · semondre · French
semondre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | semondre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sə.mɔ̃dʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « semondre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
semondre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \sə.mɔ̃dʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for semondre, 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is semondre, spelled S-E-M-O-N-D-R-E.
Definition
- 1Inviter à une cérémonie.
- 2Inviter formellement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how semondre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son hôte n’eut pas la peine De le semondre deux fois. D'abord avec son haleine Il se réchauffe les doigts.
Il ne manqua pas de dire : — Je viens vous faire l’honneur de vous semondre. Locution très juste, bien qu’elle nous paraisse un contresens, puisqu’elle exprime l’idée de rendre les honneurs à ceux qu’on en juge dignes.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.