difficilement
\di.fi.sil.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“difficilement” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,335. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,335
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Avec difficulté, avec peine. D’une manière difficile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-difficilement · difficilement · French
difficilement · rank #5,335 · 18 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,335
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH day
Nearest frequency peer: day (-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 « difficilement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- contrainte
contrainte
94,669 corpus weight
- croyait
croyait
94,668 corpus weight
- day
day
94,667 corpus weight
- difficileme…
difficilement
94,666 corpus weight
- débarrasser
débarrasser
94,665 corpus weight
- délégué
délégué
94,664 corpus weight
What this shows « difficilement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | difficilement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \di.fi.sil.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #5,335 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « difficilement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around difficilement (IPA \di.fi.sil.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #5,335 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for difficilement, with forms such as "ddifficilement", "dfificilement", and "diffciilement". 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. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is difficilement, spelled D-I-F-F-I-C-I-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Avec difficulté, avec peine. D’une manière difficile.
- 2Presque pas. Guère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how difficilement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout va bien ; c’est moi qui vous le dis, moi qui espère si difficilement.
Saint-Savinien se parcourt à pied, ses rues étroites et tortueuses étant difficilement compatibles avec la voiture.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddifficilement
- dfificilement
- diffciilement
- difficcilement
- difficielment
- difficileemnt
- difficilemennt
- difficilementt
- difficilemetn
- difficilemment
- difficilemnet
- difficillement
- difficilmeent
- difficliement
- diffiiclement
- dificilement
- dififcilement
- idfficilement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of difficilement - 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).