seventeen
\ˌsɛv.ən.ˈtin\
The verdict
“seventeen” is uncommon French (frequency #73,552 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,552
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dix-sept.
Corpus desk
Index FR-seventeen · seventeen · French
seventeen · rank #73,552 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,552
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH SGC
Nearest frequency peer: SGC (+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 « seventeen »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- scénaristiq…
scénaristiques
26,453 corpus weight
- selling
selling
26,452 corpus weight
- serrai
serrai
26,451 corpus weight
- seventeen
seventeen
26,449 corpus weight
- SGC
SGC
26,448 corpus weight
- Shinzo
Shinzo
26,446 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « seventeen » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | seventeen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˌsɛv.ən.ˈtin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,552 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « seventeen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
seventeen is uncommon French at frequency #73,552 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˌsɛv.ən.ˈtin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for seventeen in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 seventeen, spelled S-E-V-E-N-T-E-E-N.
Definition
- 1Dix-sept.
- 2Dix-sept ans (âge d’une personne).
- 3Le 17 (d’un mois).
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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