séquoia
\se.kɔ.ja\
The verdict
“séquoia” is uncommon French (frequency #77,074 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,074
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre de conifères très élevés, propres à la Californie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sequoia · séquoia · French
séquoia · rank #77,074 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,074
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH séfarades
Nearest frequency peer: séfarades (-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 « séquoia »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- systématiser
systématiser
22,930 corpus weight
- sècheresse
sècheresse
22,929 corpus weight
- séfarades
séfarades
22,928 corpus weight
- séquoia
séquoia
22,927 corpus weight
- Tabarly
Tabarly
22,926 corpus weight
- Talmont
Talmont
22,925 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « séquoia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | séquoia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.kɔ.ja\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,074 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « séquoia » en français
Rare enough to double-check
séquoia is uncommon French at frequency #77,074 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \se.kɔ.ja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for séquoia in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is séquoia, spelled S-É-Q-U-O-I-A.
Definition
- 1Genre de conifères très élevés, propres à la Californie.
- 2Bois de cet arbre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how séquoia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’un des plus grands spécimens de séquoia mesure 100 mètres de haut, soit la taille d’un immeuble d'une trentaine d’étages.
Famille peu nombreuse mais surdouée : elle rassemble en effet non seulement l’arbre le plus haut (un Sequoia sempervirens de 115 mètres), et l’arbre le plus massif du monde (un Sequoiadendron giganteum de 1 487 mètres cubes et probablement plus de 1 200 tonnes, branches latérales non comprises)…^([1]) Voir aussi liane.
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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