sperme

/\spɛʁm\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#10,079

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

10

similar word pairs

sperme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Liquide émis lors de l’éjaculation et produit par les organes génitaux masculins. Il contient des spermatozoïdes en suspension dans le liquide séminal. Pronounced \spɛʁm\. Often confused with spire and sphère.

Key facts for sperme
PropertyValue
Headwordsperme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\spɛʁm\
Letters6
Frequency rank#10,079
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of sperme in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sperme is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \spɛʁm\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,079 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for sperme, with forms such as "pserme", "seprme", and "spemre". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "spire", "sphère", "superbe", 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 sperme, spelled S-P-E-R-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Liquide émis lors de l’éjaculation et produit par les organes génitaux masculins. Il contient des spermatozoïdes en suspension dans le liquide séminal.
  2. 2
    Agrafe.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: pserme,seprme,spemre,sperem,spermme,sperrme,spperme,spreme,ssperme

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sperme

Misspelling Variants of "sperme"

pserme6seprme6spemre6sperem6spermme7sperrme7spperme7spreme6
Misspelling Variants of "sperme"

Frequency rank: #10,079 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sperme"?
"sperme" is spelled S-P-E-R-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \spɛʁm\.
What does "sperme" mean?
As a noun, "sperme" means: Liquide émis lors de l’éjaculation et produit par les organes génitaux masculins. Il contient des spermatozoïdes en suspension dans le liquide séminal.
What words are commonly confused with "sperme"?
"sperme" is commonly confused with "spire", "sphère", "superbe". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sperme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sperme" is \spɛʁm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sperme" come from?
"sperme" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.