curieusement
\ky.ʁjøz.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“curieusement” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,440. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,440
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Avec curiosité, avec désir de voir et de savoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-curieusement · curieusement · French
curieusement · rank #14,440 · 17 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,440
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crépuscule
Nearest frequency peer: crépuscule (-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 « curieusement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coûtera
coûtera
85,564 corpus weight
- crient
crient
85,563 corpus weight
- crépuscule
crépuscule
85,562 corpus weight
- curieusement
curieusement
85,561 corpus weight
- cylindre
cylindre
85,560 corpus weight
- dauphins
dauphins
85,559 corpus weight
What this shows « curieusement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | curieusement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ky.ʁjøz.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #14,440 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « curieusement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around curieusement (IPA \ky.ʁjøz.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #14,440 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for curieusement, with forms such as "ccurieusement", "cruieusement", and "cuireusement". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "creusement", "copieusement", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 curieusement, spelled C-U-R-I-E-U-S-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Avec curiosité, avec désir de voir et de savoir.
- 2Avec soin.
- 3Avec soin et délicatesse.
- 4D’une manière étrange.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how curieusement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Observer, s'enquérir curieusement.
Aussi bien, que sert-il de regretter des plaisirs absents et de chercher curieusement tous les défauts de sa condition ?
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccurieusement
- cruieusement
- cuireusement
- cureiusement
- curiesuement
- curieuesment
- curieuseemnt
- curieusemennt
- curieusementt
- curieusemetn
- curieusemment
- curieusemnet
- curieusmeent
- curieussement
- curiuesement
- currieusement
- ucrieusement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of curieusement - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "curieusement", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).