affreusement

/\a.fʁøz.mɑ̃\/ adv

Letters

12 characters

Frequency Rank

#31,807

in French word usage

Misspellings

16

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

affreusement is anFrenchadv. It means: D’une manière affreuse. Pronounced \a.fʁøz.mɑ̃\.

Key facts for affreusement
PropertyValue
Headwordaffreusement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\a.fʁøz.mɑ̃\
Letters12
Frequency rank#31,807
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of affreusement in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for affreusement is 12 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.fʁøz.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #31,807 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "D’une manière affreuse.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for affreusement, with forms such as "afferusement", "affresuement", and "affreuesment". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is affreusement, spelled A-F-F-R-E-U-S-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    D’une manière affreuse.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: afferusement,affresuement,affreuesment,affreuseemnt,affreusemennt,affreusementt,affreusemetn,affreusemment,affreusemnet,affreusmeent,affreussement,affrreusement,affruesement,afreusement,afrfeusement,fafreusement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for affreusement

Misspelling Variants of "affreusement"

afferusement12affresuement12affreuesment12affreuseemnt12affreusemennt13affreusementt13affreusemetn12affreusemment13
Misspelling Variants of "affreusement"

Frequency rank: #31,807 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "affreusement"?
"affreusement" is spelled A-F-F-R-E-U-S-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.fʁøz.mɑ̃\.
What does "affreusement" mean?
As an adv, "affreusement" means: D’une manière affreuse.
What are common misspellings of "affreusement"?
Common misspellings include "afferusement", "affresuement", "affreuesment", "affreuseemnt", "affreusemennt". The correct spelling is "affreusement".
How do you pronounce "affreusement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "affreusement" is \a.fʁøz.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "affreusement" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.