Severin
\səv.ʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“Severin” is an uncommon French word, ranked #58,936 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #58,936
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Habitant de Civrieux, commune française située dans le département de l’Ain.
| 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) |
Where “Severin” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Severin is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \səv.ʁɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #58,936 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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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Using “Severin”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-E-V-E-R-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \səv.ʁɛ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.