sevrer
\sə.vʁe\
The verdict
“sevrer” is uncommon French (frequency #61,141 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,141
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cesser l’allaitement d’un bébé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sevrer · sevrer · French
sevrer · rank #61,141 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,141
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Seveso
Nearest frequency peer: Seveso (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « sevrer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Seigner
Seigner
38,864 corpus weight
- Sernin
Sernin
38,862 corpus weight
- Seveso
Seveso
38,861 corpus weight
- sevrer
sevrer
38,860 corpus weight
- sexton
sexton
38,859 corpus weight
- sheng
sheng
38,857 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sevrer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sevrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sə.vʁe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,141 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sevrer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sevrer is uncommon French at frequency #61,141 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sə.vʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sevrer, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sevrer, spelled S-E-V-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Cesser l’allaitement d’un bébé.
- 2Cesser de nourrir au lait un jeune animal.
- 3Séparer de l’arbre, de la plante-mère, en parlant d’une marcotte.
- 4Priver, frustrer quelqu’un de quelque chose.
- 5Faire cesser la dépendance aux substances narcotiques, à la tabagie, à l’alcool, désintoxiquer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sevrer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sa mère, qui avait eu l’intention de le sevrer à un an, continua de le nourrir, sur le conseil de Madge, et le lait maternel, mêlé, quelquefois de lait de renne, lui rendit promptement ses forces.
Une année, deux années s’écoulèrent. Le fils d’Elhamy fut sevré, grandit ; il babillait gentiment sous la garde de sa nourrice.
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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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