siège
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,347
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
siège is aFrenchnoun. It means: Meuble utilisé pour s’asseoir. Pronounced \sjɛʒ\. It ranks #1,347 in French word frequency. Often confused with sig and site.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for siège is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for siège, with forms such as "isège", "siege", and "sigèe". 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, "sig", "site", "sien", 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 siège, spelled S-I-È-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: isège,siege,sigèe,sièeg,siègge,ssiège,sèige
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for siège
Misspelling Variants of "siège"
Frequency rank: #1,347 in French
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