seldom
adv. freq.adv. not often. You use this to describe something that happens very rarely.
adv. at infrequent intervals; not often. While sometimes considered formal or literary, it remains a standard marker of low frequency in modern English.
We seldom see our neighbors during the winter.
The CEO seldom visits the local branches, so her sudden arrival today surprised the entire staff.
In this remote part of the country, the silence is seldom broken by anything louder than the wind or the occasional passing truck.
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.
Frequency adverb — typically placed before the main verb, but after the verb 'to be'. When placed at the start of a sentence for emphasis, it requires subject-verb inversion.
Seldom I have seen such beauty.Seldom have I seen such beauty.When 'seldom' starts a sentence, the subject and the auxiliary verb must be swapped.