sévillan
\se.vi.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“sévillan” is uncommon French (frequency #95,372 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,372
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à Séville, à ses habitants ou à leur culture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sevillan · sévillan · French
sévillan · rank #95,372 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,372
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sémillant
Nearest frequency peer: sémillant (-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 « sévillan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- surintendan…
surintendance
4,632 corpus weight
- synchronici…
synchronicité
4,631 corpus weight
- sémillant
sémillant
4,630 corpus weight
- sévillan
sévillan
4,629 corpus weight
- tabernacles
tabernacles
4,628 corpus weight
- tadam
tadam
4,627 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sévillan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sévillan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \se.vi.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,372 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sévillan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sévillan is uncommon French at frequency #95,372 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \se.vi.jɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à Séville, à ses habitants ou à leur culture.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sévillan, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sévillan, spelled S-É-V-I-L-L-A-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif à Séville, à ses habitants ou à leur culture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sévillan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Durant une épuration de sept années (1480-1487), 5000 conversos sévillans accusés d’avoir judaïsé se laissèrent « réconcilier » après les peines et humiliations habituelles.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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