septante
\sɛp.tɑ̃t\
The verdict
“septante” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,008. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,008
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soixante-neuf plus un, soit sept fois dix, adjectif numéral cardinal correspondant au nombre 70.
Corpus desk
Index FR-septante · septante · French
septante · rank #40,008 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,008
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH semblera
Nearest frequency peer: semblera (-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 « septante »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- scanners
scanners
59,996 corpus weight
- seconder
seconder
59,995 corpus weight
- semblera
semblera
59,994 corpus weight
- septante
septante
59,993 corpus weight
- sereins
sereins
59,992 corpus weight
- serrurerie
serrurerie
59,991 corpus weight
What this shows « septante » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | septante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɛp.tɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,008 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « septante »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around septante (IPA \sɛp.tɑ̃t\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #40,008 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Soixante-neuf plus un, soit sept fois dix, adjectif numéral cardinal correspondant au nombre 70.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for septante, with forms such as "esptante", "sepatnte", and "sepptante". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "servante", "sortante", "sentant", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is septante, spelled S-E-P-T-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Soixante-neuf plus un, soit sept fois dix, adjectif numéral cardinal correspondant au nombre 70.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how septante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mars nous menace par la force bellique, Septante fois fera le sang épandre : […]
Les septante semaines de Daniel sont équivoques pour le terme du commencement, à cause des termes de la prophétie ; et pour le terme de la fin, à cause des diversités des chronologistes.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esptante
- sepatnte
- sepptante
- septanet
- septannte
- septantte
- septatne
- septnate
- septtante
- setpante
- spetante
- sseptante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of septante - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "septante", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).