sept

Other forms of sept

plural

septs·

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 sept

What does sept mean?

sept means "the month following August and preceding October". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sept?

sept has 1 syllable: sept. In IPA it is /ˈsɛpt/.

What is another word for sept?

Close synonyms include September, Sep, family, family line, folk. 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 sept a common word?

sept 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.

What rhymes with sept?

4 words rhyme with sept. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.