docilement
\dɔ.sil.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“docilement” is uncommon French (frequency #65,864 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,864
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Avec docilité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-docilement · docilement · French
docilement · rank #65,864 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,864
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dives
Nearest frequency peer: dives (-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 « docilement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dispendieuse
dispendieuse
34,140 corpus weight
- dissidences
dissidences
34,139 corpus weight
- dives
dives
34,138 corpus weight
- docilement
docilement
34,137 corpus weight
- dogon
dogon
34,136 corpus weight
- domo
domo
34,134 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « docilement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | docilement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \dɔ.sil.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #65,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « docilement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
docilement is uncommon French at frequency #65,864 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \dɔ.sil.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Avec docilité.".
Zero misspellings are on record for docilement in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is docilement, spelled D-O-C-I-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Avec docilité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how docilement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Recevoir docilement les avis. Il a écouté docilement mes leçons.
Afin que les peuples, soumis aux lois de l’État comme à celles de la nature et reconnaissant le même pouvoir [divin] dans la formation de l’homme et dans celle de la cité, obéissent avec liberté et portassent docilement le joug de la félicité publique.
Antonyms
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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