seventh

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The English entry for seventh is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈsɛvnθ/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,711 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The ordinal form of the number seven.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for seventh, with forms such as "esventh", "seevnth", and "sevenht". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "seventy", "seven", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: 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. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is seventh, spelled S-E-V-E-N-T-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.