cruellement

/\kʁy.ɛl.mɑ̃\/ adv

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#14,899

in French word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

cruellement is anFrenchadv. It means: D’une manière cruelle, avec cruauté. Pronounced \kʁy.ɛl.mɑ̃\.

Key facts for cruellement
PropertyValue
Headwordcruellement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\kʁy.ɛl.mɑ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#14,899
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cruellement is 11 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁy.ɛl.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,899 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for cruellement, with forms such as "ccruellement", "creullement", and "crruellement". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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 cruellement, spelled C-R-U-E-L-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
    D’une manière cruelle, avec cruauté.
  2. 2
    D’une façon douloureuse.
  3. 3
    Cruellement laid, très laid.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccruellement,creullement,crruellement,cruelelment,cruelement,cruelleemnt,cruellemennt,cruellementt,cruellemetn,cruellemment,cruellemnet,cruellmeent,crulelement,curellement,rcuellement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cruellement

Misspelling Variants of "cruellement"

ccruellement12creullement11crruellement12cruelelment11cruelement10cruelleemnt11cruellemennt12cruellementt12
Misspelling Variants of "cruellement"

Frequency rank: #14,899 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cruellement"?
"cruellement" is spelled C-R-U-E-L-L-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁy.ɛl.mɑ̃\.
What does "cruellement" mean?
As an adv, "cruellement" means: D’une manière cruelle, avec cruauté.
What are common misspellings of "cruellement"?
Common misspellings include "ccruellement", "creullement", "crruellement", "cruelelment", "cruelement". The correct spelling is "cruellement".
How do you pronounce "cruellement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cruellement" is \kʁy.ɛl.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cruellement" come from?
"cruellement" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.