septième
\sɛ.tjɛm\
The verdict
“septième” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,188. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,188
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne l’ordinal ou la fraction septième.
Corpus desk
Index FR-septieme · septième · French
septième · rank #5,188 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,188
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH saut
Nearest frequency peer: saut (-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 « septième »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- saura
saura
94,815 corpus weight
- saut
saut
94,814 corpus weight
- septième
septième
94,813 corpus weight
- shirt
shirt
94,812 corpus weight
- souhaitent
souhaitent
94,811 corpus weight
- spectateurs
spectateurs
94,810 corpus weight
What this shows « septième » 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 | septième |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɛ.tjɛm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,188 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « septième »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around septième (IPA \sɛ.tjɛm\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,188 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for septième, with forms such as "esptième", "sepitème", and "sepptième". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "septique", "VIIe", "seizième", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is septième, spelled S-E-P-T-I-È-M-E.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne l’ordinal ou la fraction septième.
- 2(Lui septième, elle septième ou en septième) Avec six autres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how septième appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour la septième semaine, Céline Parzys mettra à l’honneur le patrimoine culinaire de la Charente-Maritime.
Et si Marie Gouze, dite Olympe de Gouges, devenait la septième femme honorée au Panthéon (5ᵉ), à Paris…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esptième
- sepitème
- sepptième
- septieme
- septimèe
- septièem
- septièmme
- septtième
- septèime
- setpième
- spetième
- sseptième
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of septième - 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 "septième", 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).