sereine

/\sə.ʁɛn\/ adj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#18,065

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

14

similar word pairs

sereine is anFrenchadj. It means: Féminin singulier de serein. Pronounced \sə.ʁɛn\. Often confused with serie and sirène.

Key facts for sereine
PropertyValue
Headwordsereine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\sə.ʁɛn\
Letters7
Frequency rank#18,065
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sereine is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sə.ʁɛn\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,065 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Féminin singulier de serein.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for sereine, with forms such as "esreine", "seerine", and "sereien". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "serie", "sirène", "serena", 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 sereine, spelled S-E-R-E-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de serein.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: esreine,seerine,sereien,sereinne,serenie,seriene,serreine,sreeine,ssereine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sereine

Misspelling Variants of "sereine"

esreine7seerine7sereien7sereinne8serenie7seriene7serreine8sreeine7
Misspelling Variants of "sereine"

Frequency rank: #18,065 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sereine"?
"sereine" is spelled S-E-R-E-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sə.ʁɛn\.
What does "sereine" mean?
As an adj, "sereine" means: Féminin singulier de serein.
What words are commonly confused with "sereine"?
"sereine" is commonly confused with "serie", "sirène", "serena". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sereine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sereine" is \sə.ʁɛn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sereine" come from?
"sereine" 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.