sévissant
\se.vi.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“sévissant” is uncommon French (frequency #77,977 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,977
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de sévir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sevissant · sévissant · French
sévissant · rank #77,977 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,977
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH ségrégationni…
Nearest frequency peer: ségrégationniste (-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 « sévissant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- swaps
swaps
22,028 corpus weight
- sympatoche
sympatoche
22,026 corpus weight
- ségrégation…
ségrégationniste
22,025 corpus weight
- sévissant
sévissant
22,024 corpus weight
- TAAF
TAAF
22,023 corpus weight
- tamarin
tamarin
22,022 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sévissant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sévissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \se.vi.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sévissant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sévissant is uncommon French at frequency #77,977 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \se.vi.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de sévir.".
sévissant has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 sévissant, spelled S-É-V-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de sévir.
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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