candidement
\kɑ̃.did.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“candidement” is uncommon French (frequency #96,722 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,722
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Avec candeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-candidement · candidement · French
candidement · rank #96,722 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,722
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH campari
Nearest frequency peer: campari (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « candidement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- calent
calent
3,284 corpus weight
- camba
camba
3,282 corpus weight
- campari
campari
3,280 corpus weight
- candidement
candidement
3,279 corpus weight
- canonisés
canonisés
3,278 corpus weight
- captivantes
captivantes
3,276 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « candidement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | candidement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.did.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #96,722 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « candidement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
candidement is uncommon French at frequency #96,722 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \kɑ̃.did.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Avec candeur.".
candidement doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is candidement, spelled C-A-N-D-I-D-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Avec candeur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how candidement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a des gens qui parlent candidement quand ils veulent taire une vérité, (Dict. de Trévoux)
Reste que, de sondage en sondage, l’ignorance d’une portion de la population pour les connaissances politiques de base surprend. Appelons ça le « syndrome Andréanne », cette participante d’Occupation double qui a candidement admis ignorer où se trouve la capitale du Canada.
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
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).