Septum
[ˈzɛptʊm]
The verdict
“Septum” is uncommon German (frequency #59,178 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,178
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Scheidewand, Zwischenwand, die Organe unterteilt oder anatomische Strukturen voneinander trennt
Corpus desk
Index DE-septum · Septum · German
Septum · rank #59,178 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,178
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH sentimentalen
Nearest frequency peer: sentimentalen (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Septum“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- selbes
selbes
40,827 corpus weight
- Senate
Senate
40,826 corpus weight
- sentimental…
sentimentalen
40,824 corpus weight
- Septum
Septum
40,823 corpus weight
- shuffle
shuffle
40,821 corpus weight
- signature
signature
40,820 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Septum“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Septum |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzɛptʊm] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,178 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Septum“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Septum is uncommon German at frequency #59,178 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈzɛptʊm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Scheidewand, Zwischenwand, die Organe unterteilt oder anatomische Strukturen voneinander trennt".
Septum doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Septum, spelled S-E-P-T-U-M.
Definition
- 1Scheidewand, Zwischenwand, die Organe unterteilt oder anatomische Strukturen voneinander trennt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Septum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das interatriale Septum ist eine Trennwand im Herzen.
Sein Gehirn ist nicht richtig ausgebildet, vermutlich fehlt das Septum, die Trennwand zwischen den Gehirnhälften.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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