criminellement
\kʁi.mi.nɛl.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“criminellement” is uncommon French (frequency #73,869 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,869
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière criminelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-criminellement · criminellement · French
criminellement · rank #73,869 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,869
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH criblés
Nearest frequency peer: criblés (-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 « criminellement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cramés
cramés
26,136 corpus weight
- criantes
criantes
26,134 corpus weight
- criblés
criblés
26,133 corpus weight
- criminellem…
criminellement
26,132 corpus weight
- Cronos
Cronos
26,131 corpus weight
- crucifiés
crucifiés
26,129 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « criminellement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | criminellement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \kʁi.mi.nɛl.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #73,869 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « criminellement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
criminellement is uncommon French at frequency #73,869 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \kʁi.mi.nɛl.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for criminellement, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is criminellement, spelled C-R-I-M-I-N-E-L-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière criminelle.
- 2Par-devant la juridiction criminelle.
- 3de mauvaise part.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how criminellement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Agir criminellement.
Protagoras, un des plus illustres sophistes de son temps, ayant commencé un de ses ouvrages par ces mots : Je ne sais s'il y a des dieux ou s'il n'y en a point, fut poursuivi criminellement et prit la fuite.
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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