septum
\sɛp.tɔm\
The verdict
“septum” is uncommon French (frequency #57,590 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,590
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cloison membraneuse qui délimite deux cavités.
Corpus desk
Index FR-septum · septum · French
septum · rank #57,590 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,590
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH semoun
Nearest frequency peer: semoun (-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 « septum »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- SDI
SDI
42,414 corpus weight
- semblais
semblais
42,413 corpus weight
- semoun
semoun
42,412 corpus weight
- septum
septum
42,411 corpus weight
- sharing
sharing
42,409 corpus weight
- shetland
shetland
42,408 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « septum » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | septum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛp.tɔm\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,590 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « septum » en français
Rare enough to double-check
septum is uncommon French at frequency #57,590 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛp.tɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cloison membraneuse qui délimite deux cavités.".
No misspelling variants are generated for septum in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is septum, spelled S-E-P-T-U-M.
Definition
- 1Cloison membraneuse qui délimite deux cavités.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how septum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le cœur est un muscle creux divisé en quatre cavités : deux atriums (droit et gauche) et deux ventricules (droit et gauche). Les deux atriums et les deux ventricules sont séparés par des cloisons étanches (septums interatrial et interventriculaire).
Sa barrette et son septum percé sont un obstacle pour le citoyen moyen.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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