compulsivement
\kɔ̃.pyl.siv.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“compulsivement” is uncommon French (frequency #95,727 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,727
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière compulsive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-compulsivement · compulsivement · French
compulsivement · rank #95,727 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,727
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH compromette
Nearest frequency peer: compromette (-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 « compulsivement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- complexer
complexer
4,277 corpus weight
- complètemen…
complètements
4,276 corpus weight
- compromette
compromette
4,275 corpus weight
- compulsivem…
compulsivement
4,274 corpus weight
- comtesses
comtesses
4,273 corpus weight
- concoure
concoure
4,272 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « compulsivement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | compulsivement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pyl.siv.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #95,727 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « compulsivement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
compulsivement is uncommon French at frequency #95,727 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \kɔ̃.pyl.siv.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "D’une manière compulsive.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for compulsivement, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is compulsivement, spelled C-O-M-P-U-L-S-I-V-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière compulsive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how compulsivement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les images fortes de notre famille étaient celles des enfants alignés en rang d’oignons et de la fratrie fonctionnant en « tribu », une manière d’accentuer la négation même de chaque individu. C’était le socle et la base de notre éducation, dictée par des parents qui, en réalité, ont compulsivement répété leurs propres héritages familiaux.
This word in other languages
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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