sept

\sɛt\

/\sɛt\/ adj

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The verdict

“sept” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #831. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#831
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Six plus un, adjectif numéral cardinal correspondant au nombre 7.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sept · sept · French

sept · rank #831 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #831
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH soirée

Nearest frequency peer: soirée (+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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « sept »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « sept » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

sept vs st
50% similar
sept vs SP
0% similar
sept vs ses
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for sept
PropertyValue
Headwordsept
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\sɛt\
Letters4
Frequency rank#831
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sept »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.septse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « soirée » (#832), « retrouver » (#829), « sol » (#833). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sept » est au #831. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around sept (IPA \sɛt\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #831 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for sept, with forms such as "espt", "seppt", and "septt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "st", "SP", "ses", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sept, spelled S-E-P-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Six plus un, adjectif numéral cardinal correspondant au nombre 7.
  2. 2
    Septième.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how sept appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Toutes les fois que je vais voir le grand vizir je suis accompagné par Si Mohammed Ben El-Kaâb, qui a passé sept ans en Europe, dont trois à Paris et quatre en Belgique.
  2. Maître du mot-talisman, du mot magique, et, d’autre part, ayant remarqué que toute l’aventure tournait autour du nombre sept (sept abbayes, sept moines, sept branches au chandelier, sept pierres de couleur enchâssées dans sept bagues) aussitôt, tu entends, aussitôt, par une sorte de mouvement réflexe de mon esprit, j’ai noté que l’étoile Alcor appartenait…

This word in other languages

seven(English)siete(Español)sieben(Deutsch)sete(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • espt
  • seppt
  • septt
  • setp
  • spet
  • ssept

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sept - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

espt2seppt1septt1setp2spet2ssept1
Edit distance from "sept"

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sept"?
"sept" is spelled S-E-P-T. The IPA pronunciation is \sɛt\.
What does "sept" mean?
As an adjective, "sept" means: Six plus un, adjectif numéral cardinal correspondant au nombre 7.
What words are commonly confused with "sept"?
"sept" is commonly confused with "st", "SP", "ses". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sept"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sept" is \sɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sept" come from?
"sept" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sept", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

ouest6 variantscoeur6 variantspourra6 variantsrend6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list