doucettement
French, adverb/du.sɛt.mɑ̃/
doucettement is spelled D-O-U-C-E-T-T-E-M-E-N-T (12 letters) and appears about once in every 72 million words in written French, the 267,323rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Doucettement is a French adverb meaning “softly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tout doucement, d’une manière très douce ; en douce ; petit à petit”.
What does doucettement mean in English?
adverb
- 1
softly
- 2
tenderly
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adverb: 1. Tout doucement, d’une manière très douce ; en douce ; petit à petit.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce doucettement?
- /du.sɛt.mɑ̃/
- \du.sɛt.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is doucettement in French?
doucettement appears about once in every 72 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).