brutalement

/\bʁy.tal.mɑ̃\/ adv

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#11,184

in French word usage

Misspellings

17

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

brutalement is anFrenchadv. It means: Avec brutalité ; violemment. Pronounced \bʁy.tal.mɑ̃\.

Key facts for brutalement
PropertyValue
Headwordbrutalement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\bʁy.tal.mɑ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#11,184
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for brutalement is 11 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁy.tal.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,184 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for brutalement, with forms such as "bbrutalement", "brrutalement", and "brtualement". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, 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 brutalement, spelled B-R-U-T-A-L-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
    Avec brutalité ; violemment.
  2. 2
    Soudainement ; de manière inattendue.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: bbrutalement,brrutalement,brtualement,bruatlement,brutaelment,brutaleemnt,brutalemennt,brutalementt,brutalemetn,brutalemment,brutalemnet,brutallement,brutalmeent,brutlaement,bruttalement,burtalement,rbutalement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for brutalement

Misspelling Variants of "brutalement"

bbrutalement12brrutalement12brtualement11bruatlement11brutaelment11brutaleemnt11brutalemennt12brutalementt12
Misspelling Variants of "brutalement"

Frequency rank: #11,184 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "brutalement"?
"brutalement" is spelled B-R-U-T-A-L-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \bʁy.tal.mɑ̃\.
What does "brutalement" mean?
As an adv, "brutalement" means: Avec brutalité ; violemment.
What are common misspellings of "brutalement"?
Common misspellings include "bbrutalement", "brrutalement", "brtualement", "bruatlement", "brutaelment". The correct spelling is "brutalement".
How do you pronounce "brutalement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "brutalement" is \bʁy.tal.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "brutalement" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.