seuil
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,364
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
seuil is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pièce de bois ou dalle de pierre qui est au bas de l’ouverture d’une porte qui l’affleure. Pronounced \sœj\. It ranks #3,364 in French word frequency. Often confused with sil and sul.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | seuil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sœj\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,364 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for seuil is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sœj\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,364 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for seuil, with forms such as "esuil", "seiul", and "seuill". 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, "sil", "sul", "suis", 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 seuil, spelled S-E-U-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pièce de bois ou dalle de pierre qui est au bas de l’ouverture d’une porte qui l’affleure.
- 2Entrée d’une maison, d'un appartement ou de toute pièce de logement.
- 3Petit 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.
- 5Valeur limite.
- 6Espace d’altitude intermédiaire entre deux reliefs, permettant le partage des eaux et un passage facilité des hommes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esuil,seiul,seuill,seuli,sseuil,sueil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for seuil
Misspelling Variants of "seuil"
Frequency rank: #3,364 in French
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