séparer
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,811
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
séparer is aFrenchverb. It means: Désunir des parties d’un même tout qui étaient jointes. Pronounced \se.pa.ʁe\. It ranks #4,811 in French word frequency. Often confused with serrer and séparés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | séparer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \se.pa.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,811 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for séparer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \se.pa.ʁe\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,811 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 17 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for séparer, with forms such as "separer", "spéarer", and "sséparer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "serrer", "séparés", "séparera", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is séparer, spelled S-É-P-A-R-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Désunir des parties d’un même tout qui étaient jointes.
- 2Faire que des personnes, des animaux, des choses ne soient plus ensemble.
- 3Éloigner, faire cesser le combat.
- 4Dissoudre une union, une communauté.
- 5Trier ce qui était mêlé ou confondu.
- 6Partager ; diviser.
- 7Empêcher la réunion, l’unicité.
- 8Marquer la frontière.
- 9Marquer la distance dans l’espace et dans le temps.
- 10Faire cesser les communications, en parlant d’une armée.
- 11Considérer, mettre à part.
- 12Rendre distinct.
- 13Se quitter.
- 14Cesser de rester assemblée, ou de tenir ses séances, par quelque cause que ce soit.
- 15Devenir plusieurs parties.
- 16Dissoudre l’union charnelle ou économique formée avec une autre personne.
- 17En termes de Chasse,
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: separer,spéarer,sséparer,séaprer,sépaerr,séparerr,séparre,séparrer,sépparer,sépraer,ésparer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for séparer
Misspelling Variants of "séparer"
Frequency rank: #4,811 in French
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