sept
/sɛpt/noun
sept is spelled S-E-P-T: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 22 times per million words in written English, the 3,939th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sept means “A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; especially, one of the ancient clans of Ireland” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sept is septs.
How many letters and syllables are in sept?
| Letters | 4: S-E-P-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 22 times per million words; the 3,939th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is sept?
Sept appears 22 times per million words in written English, the 3,939th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce sept?
- US /sɛpt/
Sept has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-sept.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with sept?
6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as sept from its last stressed vowel (/ɛpt/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: step, pest, spet.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of sept
- septs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sept mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; especially, one of the ancient clans of Ireland.
- 2
An enclosure; a railing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Sept in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | septiar |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does sept come from?
A corruption of sect, influenced by Latin saeptum (“fence, enclosure”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).