seventh
sev·enth/ˈsɛvənθ/adjective, noun
seventh is spelled S-E-V-E-N-T-H: 7 letters and 2 syllables (sev·enth). It appears 18 times per million words in written English, the 4,667th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, seventh means “The ordinal form of the number seven” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in seventh?
| Letters | 7: S-E-V-E-N-T-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: sev·enth |
| In writing | 18 times per million words; the 4,667th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 seventh?
Seventh appears 18 times per million words in written English, the 4,667th 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 seventh?
- UK /ˈsɛvnθ/
- US /ˈsɛvənθ/
Seventh has 2 syllables, split sev·enth in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-seventh.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with seventh?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as seventh from its last stressed vowel (/ɛvənθ/):
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 seventh
- sevenths plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does seventh mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
The ordinal form of the number seven.
noun
- 1
The person or thing in the seventh position.
- 2
One of seven equal parts of a whole.
- 3
A tone of the seventh degree from a given tone, the interval between two such tones, or the two tones sounding in unison.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Seventh in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 seventh come from?
From Middle English seventhe, sefte, from Old English seofoþa, from Proto-West Germanic *sebundō, from Proto-Germanic *sebundô. The -n-, lost in northern Proto-West Germanic, was later reinserted by analogy with seven, equivalent to seven + -th.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).