sévissait
\se.vi.sɛ\
The verdict
“sévissait” is uncommon French (frequency #52,385 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,385
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de sévir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sevissait · sévissait · French
sévissait · rank #52,385 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,385
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH séjournait
Nearest frequency peer: séjournait (-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 « sévissait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- syndicalisa…
syndicalisation
47,619 corpus weight
- synthétiseur
synthétiseur
47,618 corpus weight
- séjournait
séjournait
47,617 corpus weight
- sévissait
sévissait
47,616 corpus weight
- tabarnak
tabarnak
47,615 corpus weight
- tabliers
tabliers
47,614 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sévissait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sévissait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \se.vi.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,385 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sévissait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sévissait is uncommon French at frequency #52,385 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \se.vi.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de sévir.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sévissait, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is sévissait, spelled S-É-V-I-S-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de sévir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sévissait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’hiver sévissait sur les Adirondacks et les bois étaient couverts de neige fraîche.
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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