continûment
\kɔ̃.ti.ny.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“continûment” is uncommon French (frequency #74,679 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,679
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière continue, sans relâche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-continument · continûment · French
continûment · rank #74,679 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,679
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contactées
Nearest frequency peer: contactées (-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 « continûment »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- conjoncture…
conjoncturels
25,325 corpus weight
- connected
connected
25,324 corpus weight
- contactées
contactées
25,323 corpus weight
- continûment
continûment
25,322 corpus weight
- coordonnant
coordonnant
25,321 corpus weight
- corriges
corriges
25,320 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « continûment » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | continûment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ti.ny.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #74,679 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « continûment » en français
Rare enough to double-check
continûment is uncommon French at frequency #74,679 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \kɔ̃.ti.ny.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "D’une manière continue, sans relâche.".
Zero misspellings are on record for continûment in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is continûment, spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-Û-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière continue, sans relâche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how continûment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est ce qui a toujours fini cette dispute à l’avantage de la grand’chambre toutes les fois qu’elle s’est élevée, ce qui prouve continûment que ce n’est pas le tout d’avoir raison pour gagner son procès.
Toutes les couches [dans un arbre] s’enveloppent successivement et continûment.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).