septique
\sɛp.tik\
The verdict
“septique” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,009. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,009
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui produit de la putréfaction, qui est corrompu, infecté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-septique · septique · French
septique · rank #33,009 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,009
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH semoule
Nearest frequency peer: semoule (-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 « septique »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- scenario
scenario
66,995 corpus weight
- segmentation
segmentation
66,994 corpus weight
- semoule
semoule
66,993 corpus weight
- septique
septique
66,992 corpus weight
- Sinatra
Sinatra
66,991 corpus weight
- Sioux
Sioux
66,990 corpus weight
What this shows « septique » 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 | septique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɛp.tik\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #33,009 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « septique »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around septique (IPA \sɛp.tik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #33,009 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for septique, with forms such as "esptique", "sepitque", and "sepptique". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "statique", "septième", "sceptique", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is septique, spelled S-E-P-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui produit de la putréfaction, qui est corrompu, infecté.
- 2Du septième degré, en parlant de polynôme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how septique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plaie septique.
Circonstance plus avantageuse encore, le gaz acide carbonique restant très longtemps dans les couches inférieures de l’atmosphère, en raison de son poids qui est supérieur à celui de l’air, la zone dangereuse conserve ses propriétés septiques plusieurs heures après l’explosion, et tout être qui tente d’y pénétrer périt infailliblement.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esptique
- sepitque
- sepptique
- septiqeu
- septiqque
- septiuqe
- septqiue
- septtique
- setpique
- spetique
- sseptique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of septique - 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.
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 "septique", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).