distraitement
\dis.tʁɛt.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“distraitement” is uncommon French (frequency #77,425 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,425
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière distraite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-distraitement · distraitement · French
distraitement · rank #77,425 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,425
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH distillés
Nearest frequency peer: distillés (-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 « distraitement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Dirac
Dirac
22,579 corpus weight
- disjoncter
disjoncter
22,578 corpus weight
- distillés
distillés
22,577 corpus weight
- distraiteme…
distraitement
22,576 corpus weight
- documentati…
documentations
22,574 corpus weight
- Domenach
Domenach
22,573 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « distraitement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | distraitement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \dis.tʁɛt.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #77,425 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « distraitement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
distraitement is uncommon French at frequency #77,425 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \dis.tʁɛt.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "D’une manière distraite.".
distraitement doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is distraitement, spelled D-I-S-T-R-A-I-T-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière distraite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how distraitement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le garde lui dit quelque chose à l’oreille, d’un air qui n'est pas effrayant ; elle regarde sa serpe qu’elle balance distraitement entre ses doigts ; l’affaire peut s’arranger.
Le volume entr'ouvert distraitement, il le savait, et il gardait dans sa mémoire une photographie ineffaçable d’une ville ou d’un site traversés au galop.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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