seum
\sœm\
The verdict
“seum” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,357. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,357
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rancœur, sentiment de colère, de frustration et de dégoût ; cause de ce dégoût.
Corpus desk
Index FR-seum · seum · French
seum · rank #49,357 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,357
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scrotum
Nearest frequency peer: scrotum (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « seum »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Schmid
Schmid
50,647 corpus weight
- Schreiber
Schreiber
50,646 corpus weight
- scrotum
scrotum
50,645 corpus weight
- seum
seum
50,644 corpus weight
- sexologue
sexologue
50,643 corpus weight
- shower
shower
50,641 corpus weight
What this shows « seum » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | seum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sœm\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #49,357 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « seum »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around seum (IPA \sœm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,357 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Rancœur, sentiment de colère, de frustration et de dégoût ; cause de ce dégoût.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for seum, with forms such as "esum", "semu", and "seumm". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "su", "SM", "sur", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is seum, spelled S-E-U-M.
Definition
- 1Rancœur, sentiment de colère, de frustration et de dégoût ; cause de ce dégoût.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how seum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] alors tu peux bien écouter son p’tit son à la Zazie tu te tapes quand même un putain de seum total quand tu la téma faire ouin-ouin […].
Du seum dans les veines. Le thorax gonflé à bloc, j’ai du mal à respirer. Dans le club, le morceau de RnB Aston Music, du gros Rick Ross tourne.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esum
- semu
- seumm
- sseum
- suem
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of seum - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).