séparer

/\se.pa.ʁe\/ verb

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.

Key facts for séparer
PropertyValue
Headwordséparer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\se.pa.ʁe\
Letters7
Frequency rank#4,811
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of séparer in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Désunir des parties d’un même tout qui étaient jointes.
  2. 2
    Faire que des personnes, des animaux, des choses ne soient plus ensemble.
  3. 3
    Éloigner, faire cesser le combat.
  4. 4
    Dissoudre une union, une communauté.
  5. 5
    Trier ce qui était mêlé ou confondu.
  6. 6
    Partager ; diviser.
  7. 7
    Empêcher la réunion, l’unicité.
  8. 8
    Marquer la frontière.
  9. 9
    Marquer la distance dans l’espace et dans le temps.
  10. 10
    Faire cesser les communications, en parlant d’une armée.
  11. 11
    Considérer, mettre à part.
  12. 12
    Rendre distinct.
  13. 13
    Se quitter.
  14. 14
    Cesser de rester assemblée, ou de tenir ses séances, par quelque cause que ce soit.
  15. 15
    Devenir plusieurs parties.
  16. 16
    Dissoudre l’union charnelle ou économique formée avec une autre personne.
  17. 17
    En 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"

separer7spéarer7sséparer8séaprer7sépaerr7séparerr8séparre7séparrer8
Misspelling Variants of "séparer"

Frequency rank: #4,811 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "séparer"?
"séparer" is spelled S-É-P-A-R-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \se.pa.ʁe\.
What does "séparer" mean?
As a verb, "séparer" means: Désunir des parties d’un même tout qui étaient jointes.
What words are commonly confused with "séparer"?
"séparer" is commonly confused with "serrer", "séparés", "séparera". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "séparer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "séparer" is \se.pa.ʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "séparer" come from?
"séparer" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.