Which to use
“sèment” is a verb and “smet” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #36,175
- “sèment” frequency rank
- #35,280
- “smet” frequency rank
- 71455
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | sèment | smet |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de semer. | Pâte liquide. |
Letter map: sèment vs smet
Shared letters muted; letters that set sèment and smet apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. sèment runs 6 letters (CVCVCC) against smet's 4 (CCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Part-of-speech tell for sèment / smet
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: sèment is averb and smetanoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 71455, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
sèment is recorded at frequency rank #36,175, classified as averb, pronounced \sɛm\. smet is at rank #35,280, tagged as anoun.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 71455, this pair ranks #47,491 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of sèment vs smet
Shared letters: emst. Private to "sèment": nè. Private to "smet": -.
"sèment" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC · "smet" · 4 letters · shape CCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- smet ← mset · semt · smett · smmet · smte · ssmet
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "sèment" and "smet" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "sèment" vs "smet" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
You've compared "sèment" and "smet". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "sèment" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "smet" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #47,491 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "sèment" and "smet" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sèment vs sucent". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #47,491 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.