Seveso
\ˈse.ve.zo\
The verdict
“Seveso” is uncommon French (frequency #61,140 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,140
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune d’Italie de la province de Monza et Brianza dans la région de la Lombardie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-seveso · Seveso · French
Seveso · rank #61,140 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,140
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sernin
Nearest frequency peer: Sernin (-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 « Seveso »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Seamus
Seamus
38,865 corpus weight
- Seigner
Seigner
38,864 corpus weight
- Sernin
Sernin
38,862 corpus weight
- Seveso
Seveso
38,861 corpus weight
- sevrer
sevrer
38,860 corpus weight
- sexton
sexton
38,859 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Seveso » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Seveso |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈse.ve.zo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,140 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Seveso » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Seveso is uncommon French at frequency #61,140 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ˈse.ve.zo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune d’Italie de la province de Monza et Brianza dans la région de la Lombardie.".
Seveso doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Seveso, spelled S-E-V-E-S-O.
Definition
- 1Commune d’Italie de la province de Monza et Brianza dans la région de la Lombardie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Seveso appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Catastrophe de Seveso.
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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