cruellement
\kʁy.ɛl.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“cruellement” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,899. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,899
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière cruelle, avec cruauté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cruellement · cruellement · French
cruellement · rank #14,899 · 15 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,899
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH critiquent
Nearest frequency peer: critiquent (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cruellement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- craignant
craignant
85,105 corpus weight
- craque
craque
85,104 corpus weight
- critiquent
critiquent
85,103 corpus weight
- cruellement
cruellement
85,102 corpus weight
- créances
créances
85,101 corpus weight
- culot
culot
85,100 corpus weight
What this shows « cruellement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cruellement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \kʁy.ɛl.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #14,899 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cruellement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around cruellement (IPA \kʁy.ɛl.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #14,899 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for cruellement, with forms such as "ccruellement", "creullement", and "crruellement". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cruellement, spelled C-R-U-E-L-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière cruelle, avec cruauté.
- 2D’une façon douloureuse.
- 3Cruellement laid, très laid.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cruellement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il le fait mourir cruellement.
Cruellement docile aux leçons de ton maître.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccruellement
- creullement
- crruellement
- cruelelment
- cruelement
- cruelleemnt
- cruellemennt
- cruellementt
- cruellemetn
- cruellemment
- cruellemnet
- cruellmeent
- crulelement
- curellement
- rcuellement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cruellement - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).