seldom

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• /ˈsɛldəm/
  Play
• General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• rhymes with -ɛldəm
  Play
• CMU ARPABET: S EH1 L D AH0 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play

From late Middle English seldom, alteration of earlier selden by analogy with adverbial datives such as whilom, from Old English seldan (“seldom”), from Proto-West Germanic *seldanā, from Proto-Germanic *seldanē. Cognate with Saterland Frisian säilden (“seldom”), West Frisian selden, komselden (“rare, seldom”), Dutch zelden, German selten, Danish sjælden, Norwegian Bokmål sjelden, Norwegian Nynorsk sjeldan, Swedish sällan, Faroese sjáldan, Icelandic sjaldan. More at seld and selly.

108 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: рядък (rjadǎk) — infrequent
• Danish: sjælden — infrequent
• Dutch: ongewoon — infrequent
• Georgian: ღარიბი (ɣaribi) — infrequent
• Afrikaans: selde — infrequently, rarely
• Albanian: rrallë — infrequently, rarely
• Arabic: نَادِرًا (nādiran) — infrequently, rarely
• Armenian: հազվադեպ (hazvadep) — infrequently, rarely
• Asturian: raramente — infrequently, rarely
• Azerbaijani: az — infrequently, rarely
• Azerbaijani: gec-gec — infrequently, rarely
• Basque: gutxitan — infrequently, rarely
• Belarusian: рэ́дка (rédka) — infrequently, rarely
• Bengali: কদাপি (kodapi) — infrequently, rarely
• Bulgarian: ря́дко (rjádko) — infrequently, rarely
• Burmese: ဆယ်ခါတစ်ခါ (hcaihkatachka) — infrequently, rarely
• Burmese: ဖြစ်ခေါင့်ဖြစ်ခဲ (hprachkaung.hprachkai:) — infrequently, rarely
• Catalan: rarament — infrequently, rarely
• Cebuano: talagsa — infrequently, rarely
• Chinese Cantonese: 很少 (han2 siu2) — infrequently, rarely
• Chinese Cantonese: 好少 (hou2 siu2) — infrequently, rarely
• Chinese Mandarin: 很少 (hěnshǎo) — infrequently, rarely
• Chinese Mandarin: 伄儅 /伄𰁸 (diàodāng) — infrequently, rarely
• Czech: zřídka — infrequently, rarely
• Danish: sjældent — infrequently, rarely
• Dutch: zelden — infrequently, rarely
• Esperanto: malofte — infrequently, rarely
• Estonian: harva — infrequently, rarely
• Faroese: sjáldan — infrequently, rarely
• Finnish: harvoin — infrequently, rarely
• French: rarement — infrequently, rarely
• Georgian: იშვიათად (išviatad) — infrequently, rarely
• German: selten — infrequently, rarely
• Greek: σπάνια (spánia) — infrequently, rarely
• Ancient Greek: σπανίως (spaníōs) — infrequently, rarely
• Hebrew: לְעִתִּים רְחוֹקוֹת (le'eteym rekhokót) — infrequently, rarely
• Hindi: कभी कभी (kabhī kabhī) — infrequently, rarely
• Hungarian: ritkán — infrequently, rarely
• Icelandic: sjaldan — infrequently, rarely
• Indonesian: jarang — infrequently, rarely
• Irish: go hannamh — infrequently, rarely
• Italian: raramente — infrequently, rarely
• Italian: di rado — infrequently, rarely
• Japanese: 稀に — infrequently, rarely
• Japanese: 滅多に...ない (metta ni ... nai) — infrequently, rarely
• Kapampangan: malagad — infrequently, rarely
• Kazakh: аз (az) — infrequently, rarely
• Kazakh: сирек (sirek) — infrequently, rarely
• Khmer: មិនសូវ (mɨn sǝv) — infrequently, rarely
• Korean: 좀체로...않게 (jomchero...anke) — infrequently, rarely
• Korean: 드물게 (deumulge) — infrequently, rarely
• Central Kurdish: بەدەگمان (bedegman) — infrequently, rarely
• Kyrgyz: аз (az) — infrequently, rarely
• Lao: ບໍ່ສູ້ (bǭ sū) — infrequently, rarely
• Latin: rārē — infrequently, rarely
• Latin: rārenter — infrequently, rarely
• Latin: rārō — infrequently, rarely
• Latvian: reti — infrequently, rarely
• Lithuanian: retai — infrequently, rarely
• Lithuanian: nedažnai — infrequently, rarely
• Macedonian: ретко (retko) — infrequently, rarely
• Malay: jarang — infrequently, rarely
• Maltese: rari — infrequently, rarely
• Mongolian: хааяа нэг (xaajaa neg) — infrequently, rarely
• Norwegian Bokmål: sjelden — infrequently, rarely
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sjeldan — infrequently, rarely
• Ojibwe: wiikaa — infrequently, rarely
• Persian: ندرت (nodrat) — infrequently, rarely
• Persian: به ندرت (be nodrat) — infrequently, rarely
• Polish: rzadko — infrequently, rarely
• Portuguese: raramente — infrequently, rarely
• Romanian: rar — infrequently, rarely
• Romanian: rareori — infrequently, rarely
• Russian: ре́дко (rédko) — infrequently, rarely
• Russian: и́зредка (ízredka) — infrequently, rarely
• Scottish Gaelic: ainneamh — infrequently, rarely
• Serbo-Croatian: ретко — infrequently, rarely
• Serbo-Croatian: ријетко — infrequently, rarely
• Serbo-Croatian: retko — infrequently, rarely
• Serbo-Croatian: rijetko — infrequently, rarely
• Slovak: zriedka — infrequently, rarely
• Slovene: rédko — infrequently, rarely
• Spanish: casi nunca — infrequently, rarely
• Spanish: pocas veces — infrequently, rarely
• Spanish: poco — infrequently, rarely
• Spanish: apenas — infrequently, rarely
• Spanish: apenas si — infrequently, rarely
• Spanish: por maravilla — infrequently, rarely
• Swahili: nadra — infrequently, rarely
• Swedish: sällan — infrequently, rarely
• Tagalog: bihira — infrequently, rarely
• Tajik: нудратан (nudratan) — infrequently, rarely
• Tajik: кушод-кушод (kušod-kušod) — infrequently, rarely
• Tatar: аз (az) — infrequently, rarely
• Tatar: сирәк (siräk) — infrequently, rarely
• Thai: ไม่บ่อย (mâi-bɔ̀i) — infrequently, rarely
• Turkish: az — infrequently, rarely
• Turkish: nadiren — infrequently, rarely
• Turkmen: az — infrequently, rarely
• Ukrainian: рі́дко (rídko) — infrequently, rarely
• Ukrainian: зрі́дка (zrídka) — infrequently, rarely
• Urdu: کبھی کبھی (kabhī kabhī) — infrequently, rarely
• Uzbek: oz — infrequently, rarely
• Vietnamese: ít khi — infrequently, rarely
• Volapük: selediko — infrequently, rarely
• Volapük: seledo — infrequently, rarely
• Welsh: anfynych — infrequently, rarely
• Yiddish: זעלטן (zeltn) — infrequently, rarely