sévérité
French, noun/se.ve.ʁi.te/
sévérité is spelled S-É-V-É-R-I-T-É (8 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written French, the 20,952nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sévérité is a French feminine noun meaning “severity, strictness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rigidité, rigueur, absence d’indulgence”.
What does sévérité mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineseverity, strictness
- 2
feminineseverity, austerity, rigidity
- 3
feminineseverity, seriousness
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Rigidité, rigueur, absence d’indulgence. 2. Austérité, grande régularité, absence de relâchement. 3. Simplicité, dépouillement, absence de vaine recherche d’élégance et d’ornements superflus.
noun: 1. Silicate d’alumine qui provient de Saint-Sever (Landes).
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of sévérité
- sévérités plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sévérité?
- /se.ve.ʁi.te/
- \se.ve.ʁi.te\
- [se.ve.ʁi.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sévérité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sévérité in French?
sévérité appears 1.9 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).