sme
\zmɛ\
The verdict
“sme” is uncommon French (frequency #56,930 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,930
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel du présent de byť.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sme · sme · French
sme · rank #56,930 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,930
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sma
Nearest frequency peer: sma (-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 « sme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sidération
sidération
43,074 corpus weight
- slot
slot
43,073 corpus weight
- sma
sma
43,072 corpus weight
- sme
sme
43,071 corpus weight
- soa
soa
43,070 corpus weight
- Sollers
Sollers
43,069 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \zmɛ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #56,930 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sme is uncommon French at frequency #56,930 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \zmɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première personne du pluriel du présent de byť.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sme in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sme, spelled S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel du présent de byť.
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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