séquestrer
\se.kɛs.tʁe\
The verdict
“séquestrer” is uncommon French (frequency #59,673 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,673
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mettre quelque chose sous séquestre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sequestrer · séquestrer · French
séquestrer · rank #59,673 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,673
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sépia
Nearest frequency peer: sépia (-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 « séquestrer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sédiment
sédiment
40,331 corpus weight
- séduira
séduira
40,330 corpus weight
- sépia
sépia
40,329 corpus weight
- séquestrer
séquestrer
40,328 corpus weight
- séquestrés
séquestrés
40,327 corpus weight
- tabler
tabler
40,326 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « séquestrer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | séquestrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \se.kɛs.tʁe\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #59,673 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « séquestrer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
séquestrer is uncommon French at frequency #59,673 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \se.kɛs.tʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for séquestrer, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 séquestrer, spelled S-É-Q-U-E-S-T-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mettre quelque chose sous séquestre.
- 2Tenir illégalement enfermée, en parlant d’une personne.
- 3Retenir un élément chimique, en parlant d’une molécule chimique ou organique.
- 4S’isoler, vivre à l’écart du monde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how séquestrer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le séquestre est la mise sous main de justice d'objets destinés à désintéresser les créanciers (voir décision du Conseil fédéral du 18. avril 1893, recours Stutz, Archives, II, 72) ; aussi peuvent seuls être séquestrés aux termes de l'art. 275 qui vise les art. 92 et 93 L.P. des objets saisissables.
La loi punit ceux qui, sans ordre ni mandat de justice, ont arrêté, détenu ou séquestré des personnes quelconques.
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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