seuil
French, noun/sœj/
seuil is spelled S-E-U-I-L (5 letters) and appears 23 times per million words in written French, the 3,324th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Seuil is a French masculine noun meaning “threshold (of a doorway); doorstep” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pièce de bois ou dalle de pierre qui est au bas de l’ouverture d’une porte qui l’affleure”.
What does seuil mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinethreshold (of a doorway); doorstep
- 2
masculinethreshold, level
au-delà d'un certain seuil
- 3
archaicmasculinethreshold (demarcation between the limit or end of one state of being and the beginning or commencement of the next)
- 4
masculineweir
- 5
masculinethreshold (limit or boundary)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pièce de bois ou dalle de pierre qui est au bas de l’ouverture d’une porte qui l’affleure. 2. Entrée d’une maison, d'un appartement ou de toute pièce de logement. 3. Petit barrage, courte section du lit d'un cours d'eau dont le fond est naturellement ou artificiellement fixé, conduisant à modifier la hauteur de la lame d'eau. 4. (au sens figuré) Entrée.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of seuil
- seuils plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce seuil?
- /sœj/
- \sœj\
- [sœj]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to seuil
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is seuil in French?
seuil appears 23 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).