sep

Other forms of sep

plural

seps·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sep

What does sep mean?

sep means "the month following August and preceding October".

How many syllables are in sep?

sep has 1 syllable: sep. In IPA it is /ˈsɛp/.

What is another word for sep?

Close synonyms include September, Sept. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sep a common word?

sep is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.