siège
\sjɛʒ\
The verdict
“siège” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,347. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,347
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Meuble utilisé pour s’asseoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-siege · siège · French
siège · rank #1,347 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,347
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH secrétaire
Nearest frequency peer: secrétaire (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “siège”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- revenu
revenu
98,657 corpus weight
- sac
sac
98,656 corpus weight
- secrétaire
secrétaire
98,655 corpus weight
- siège
siège
98,654 corpus weight
- sources
sources
98,653 corpus weight
- supérieur
supérieur
98,652 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “siège” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | siège |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sjɛʒ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,347 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “siège” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around siège (IPA \sjɛʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,347 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 12 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for siège, with forms such as "isège", "siege", and "sigèe". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sig", "site", "sien", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is siège, spelled S-I-È-G-E.
Definition
- 1Meuble utilisé pour s’asseoir.
- 2Partie du corps sur laquelle on s’assied.
- 3Place où le juge s’assied pour rendre la justice.
- 4Lieu où l’on rendait la justice, dans les juridictions subalternes.
- 5Corps et juridiction des juges subalternes.
- 6Décision de justice.
- 7Place (position) pour un représentant, obtenant généralement son mandat suite à une élection.
- 8Endroit où est établi quelqu’un ou quelque chose.
- 9Lieu où se réunit la direction d’un gouvernement, d’une administration, d’une entreprise, etc.
- 10Un évêché et sa juridiction. — → voir Saint-Siège.
- 11Lieu où certaines choses résident principalement ; lieu où elles dominent.
- 12Action consistant à bloquer son adversaire dans son propre camp et attendre qu’il manque de ressources.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how siège appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur deux sièges contigus sont assis Fulk Ephrinell et miss Horatia Bluett. Ils causent en crayonnant des chiffres.
Il prit un siège, alluma une cigarette et accepta sans se faire prier un verre de vin de messe.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- isège
- siege
- sigèe
- sièeg
- siègge
- ssiège
- sèige
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of siège - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "siège", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "siège". Here's where to go from here.
- "siège" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "sig". View pair
- 7 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #1,347 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "S" letter cohort. S–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.