Severin
\səv.ʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“Severin” is uncommon French (frequency #58,936 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,936
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitant de Civrieux, commune française située dans le département de l’Ain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-severin · Severin · French
Severin · rank #58,936 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,936
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH several
Nearest frequency peer: several (-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 « Severin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- SDN
SDN
41,069 corpus weight
- sector
sector
41,068 corpus weight
- several
several
41,066 corpus weight
- Severin
Severin
41,065 corpus weight
- signifiera
signifiera
41,063 corpus weight
- Simonin
Simonin
41,062 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Severin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Severin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \səv.ʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Severin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Severin is uncommon French at frequency #58,936 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \səv.ʁɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Habitant de Civrieux, commune française située dans le département de l’Ain.".
Severin has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Severin, spelled S-E-V-E-R-I-N.
Definition
- 1Habitant de Civrieux, commune française située dans le département de l’Ain.
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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