septicémie

\sɛp.ti.se.mi\

/\sɛp.ti.se.mi\/ noun

The verdict

“septicémie” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,940. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#49,940
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Infection du sang.

Corpus desk

Index FR-septicemie · septicémie · French

septicémie · rank #49,940 · 15 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #49,940
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH Sepp

Nearest frequency peer: Sepp (-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 « septicémie »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « septicémie » 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).

septicémie vs septième
70% similar

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

Key facts for septicémie
PropertyValue
Headwordsepticémie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɛp.ti.se.mi\
Letters10
Frequency rank#49,940
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « septicémie »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).septicémiese 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 « Sepp » (#49,939), « severus » (#49,941), « seok » (#49,938). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « septicémie » est au #49,940. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around septicémie (IPA \sɛp.ti.se.mi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,940 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Infection du sang.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for septicémie, with forms such as "espticémie", "sepitcémie", and "seppticémie". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "septième", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is septicémie, spelled S-E-P-T-I-C-É-M-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Infection du sang.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. On sait que le microbe de la peste est un cocco-bacille appartenant au genre Pasteurella, dont les différentes espèces produisent les septicémies hémorragiques des animaux. C'est en effet le cas de la peste, puisque, de ses deux formes, la pneumonie pesteuse est primitivement une septicémie des marmottes, tandis que la peste bubonique est primitivement un…
  2. Chez les jeunes porcelets, les septicémies peuvent conduire à la mort en moins de 15 heures et les animaux présentent de la fièvre, des difficultés respiratoires, des troubles nerveux, une cyanose et des pétéchies.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • espticémie
  • sepitcémie
  • seppticémie
  • septciémie
  • septiccémie
  • septicemie
  • septicméie
  • septicéime
  • septicémei
  • septicémmie
  • septiécmie
  • septticémie
  • setpicémie
  • speticémie
  • ssepticémie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of septicémie - 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.

espticémie2sepitcémie2seppticémie1septciémie2septiccémie1septicemie1septicméie2septicéime2
Edit distance from "septicémie"

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 "septicémie"?
"septicémie" is spelled S-E-P-T-I-C-É-M-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sɛp.ti.se.mi\.
What does "septicémie" mean?
As a noun, "septicémie" means: Infection du sang.
What words are commonly confused with "septicémie"?
"septicémie" is commonly confused with "septième". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "septicémie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "septicémie" is \sɛp.ti.se.mi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "septicémie" come from?
"septicémie" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list