autrement
\o.tʁə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“autrement” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,764. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,764
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une façon autre, différente.
Corpus desk
Index FR-autrement · autrement · French
autrement · rank #1,764 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,764
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH battre
Nearest frequency peer: battre (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « autrement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- alcool
alcool
98,240 corpus weight
- amie
amie
98,239 corpus weight
- autrement
autrement
98,237 corpus weight
- battre
battre
98,236 corpus weight
- cartes
cartes
98,235 corpus weight
- coût
coût
98,234 corpus weight
What this shows « autrement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | autrement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \o.tʁə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,764 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « autrement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around autrement (IPA \o.tʁə.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #1,764 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for autrement, with forms such as "aturement", "aurtement", and "auterment". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "agrément", "âprement", "amèrement", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is autrement, spelled A-U-T-R-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une façon autre, différente.
- 2Sinon ; sans quoi.
- 3Beaucoup plus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how autrement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À peu près en même temps que Bonnet faisait ses curieuses observations, les naturalistes découvraient d’autres phénomènes bien autrement inconciliables avec les idées qu’on regardait alors comme les fondemens de la science.
— Vous savez que vous ne pourrez faire autrement que d’y arriver en retard, vous le savez ? — Je ne pourrais pas faire autrement. Je sais.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aturement
- aurtement
- auterment
- autreemnt
- autremennt
- autrementt
- autremetn
- autremment
- autremnet
- autrmeent
- autrrement
- auttrement
- uatrement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of autrement - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "autrement", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).