serrer
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,498
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
serrer is aFrenchverb. It means: Renfermer, ranger, mettre en lieu sûr, à l’abri. Pronounced \se.ʁe\. It ranks #7,498 in French word frequency. Often confused with serve and servir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | serrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \se.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,498 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for serrer is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \se.ʁe\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,498 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for serrer, with forms such as "esrrer", "serer", and "sererr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "serve", "servir", "surfer", 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 serrer, spelled S-E-R-R-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Renfermer, ranger, mettre en lieu sûr, à l’abri.
- 2Étreindre ; presser.
- 3Mettre près l’un de l’autre, rapprocher étroitement.
- 4Oppresser.
- 5Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)
- 6Replier et ranger une voile sur sa vergue.
- 7Ranger.
- 8Perdre son sang froid, son calme, faire n’importe quoi (référence au moteur qui serre lorsqu’il n’y a plus d’huile, serrer désigne la personne qui ne se maîtrise plus, par sa conduite ou ses paroles).
- 9Séduire, réussir à sortir avec quelqu’un, à flirter, etc.
- 10Attraper ; interpeller.
- 11Diminuer l’angle de champ d’une prise de vue ou d’un plan.
- 12Économiser, épargner, se restreindre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esrrer,serer,sererr,serrerr,serrre,srerer,sserrer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for serrer
Misspelling Variants of "serrer"
Frequency rank: #7,498 in French
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