seventies
\se.vən.tiz\
The verdict
“seventies” is uncommon French (frequency #63,351 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,351
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Décennie des années 1970.
Corpus desk
Index FR-seventies · seventies · French
seventies · rank #63,351 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,351
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH serrais
Nearest frequency peer: serrais (-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 « seventies »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- seizièmes
seizièmes
36,654 corpus weight
- semeur
semeur
36,652 corpus weight
- serrais
serrais
36,651 corpus weight
- seventies
seventies
36,650 corpus weight
- shout
shout
36,648 corpus weight
- sifflant
sifflant
36,647 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « seventies » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | seventies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.vən.tiz\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,351 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « seventies » en français
Rare enough to double-check
seventies is uncommon French at frequency #63,351 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \se.vən.tiz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Décennie des années 1970.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for seventies, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 seventies, spelled S-E-V-E-N-T-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Décennie des années 1970.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how seventies appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Manon, dont la petite robe verte et blanche semble tout droit sortie d’une reconstitution Seventies, joue avec un tuyau d’arrosage, la peau cuivrée, les cuisses potelées, dans une succession de grimaces invraisemblables.
La deuxième moitié du XXe siècle aurait ainsi vu se succéder les fifties (grosses voitures et rock’n’roll), les sixties (naissance du mouvement hippie), puis les seventies et leurs dernières illusions gauchistes.
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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