sever
\ˈsɛvə(r)\
The verdict
“sever” is uncommon French (frequency #53,635 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,635
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rompre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sever · sever · French
sever · rank #53,635 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,635
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH serruriers
Nearest frequency peer: serruriers (-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 « sever »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Scottish
Scottish
46,370 corpus weight
- sectionné
sectionné
46,369 corpus weight
- serruriers
serruriers
46,367 corpus weight
- sever
sever
46,366 corpus weight
- shampoings
shampoings
46,365 corpus weight
- sio
sio
46,363 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sever » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sever |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈsɛvə(r)\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,635 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sever » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sever is uncommon French at frequency #53,635 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈsɛvə(r)\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sever, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sever, spelled S-E-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rompre.
- 2Être séparé.
- 3Séparer, faire une distinction.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).