Septuagint
/sɛpˈtu.ə.d͡ʒənt/
"septuagint" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Septuagint” is uncommon English (frequency #51,985 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,985
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - The team of translators who produced the Septuagint.
Corpus desk
Index EN-septuagint · Septuagint · English
Septuagint · rank #51,985 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,985
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sensationalism
Nearest frequency peer: sensationalism (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Septuagint”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Seaford
Seaford
48,019 corpus weight
- sensational…
sensationalism
48,017 corpus weight
- Septuagint
Septuagint
48,016 corpus weight
- sheathed
sheathed
48,015 corpus weight
- Shelburne
Shelburne
48,014 corpus weight
- shinobi
shinobi
48,013 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Septuagint” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Septuagint |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /sɛpˈtu.ə.d͡ʒənt/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #51,985 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Septuagint” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Septuagint is uncommon English at frequency #51,985 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /sɛpˈtu.ə.d͡ʒənt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Septuagint in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Late Latin Septuaginta, lit. "The Seventy", a clipping of earlier descriptional names such as septuaginta translatio (“translation by the seventy”) and septuaginta interpretes (“the 70 interpreters”), calques of Koine Greek names such as οἱ ἐβδομήκοντα… The correct English form is Septuagint, spelled S-E-P-T-U-A-G-I-N-T.
Definition
- 1The team of translators who produced the Septuagint.
- 2An influential Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible produced in Alexandria in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Septuagint appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
2006, Katrin Hauspie, Theodoret and Messianic Verses in the Septuagint version of Ezekiel, Michael Anthony Knibb (editor), The Septuagint and Messianism, Leuven University Press, Peeters Publishers (Peeters Leuven), page 503, Traces of messianism in the Septuagint have occupied scholars for years; the Book of Ezekiel too has challenged attention in this s…
2009, Jan Joosten, The Prayer of Azariah (DanLXX 3): Sources and Origin, Johann Cook (editor), Septuagint and Reception, BRILL, page 5, The Septuagint originated, for the most part, as a translation of a source text. As such it represents a link—and a very important one—in the reception history of the Hebrew-Aramaic scriptures. But the Septuagint very soo…
Etymology
From Late Latin Septuaginta, lit. "The Seventy", a clipping of earlier descriptional names such as septuaginta translatio (“translation by the seventy”) and septuaginta interpretes (“the 70 interpreters”), calques of Koine Greek names such as οἱ ἐβδομήκοντα ἑρμηνευταί (hoi ebdomḗkonta hermēneutaí, “the 70 interpreters”) and οἱ Ο′ (hoi O′, “the LXX”), deriving from the popular (but probably mistaken) belief that its translation of the Torah had been produced in 72 days by a team of 72 Jewish scholars from Jerusalem (6 from each tribe) summoned to Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy II.
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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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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