septimus
The verdict
“septimus” is uncommon French (frequency #95,320 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,320
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Septième.
Corpus desk
Index FR-septimus · septimus · French
septimus · rank #95,320 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,320
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH serna
Nearest frequency peer: serna (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « septimus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- seif
seif
4,685 corpus weight
- semeuse
semeuse
4,684 corpus weight
- semons
semons
4,683 corpus weight
- septimus
septimus
4,681 corpus weight
- serna
serna
4,680 corpus weight
- Serrières
Serrières
4,679 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « septimus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | septimus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,320 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « septimus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
septimus is uncommon French at frequency #95,320 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Septième.".
septimus has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is septimus, spelled S-E-P-T-I-M-U-S.
Definition
- 1Septième.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how septimus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
mense septumo
septimus decimus (septimusdecimus)
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).