siège
\sjɛʒ\
The verdict
“siège” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #1,347 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #1,347
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Meuble utilisé pour s’asseoir.
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) |
Where “siège” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for siège is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sjɛʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,347 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
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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Using “siège”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-I-È-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sjɛʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “sig” - see the side-by-side comparison. siège vs sig
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.