droitement
French, adverb/dʁwat.mɑ̃/
droitement is spelled D-R-O-I-T-E-M-E-N-T (10 letters) and appears about once in every 79 million words in written French, the 279,127th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Droitement is a French adverb meaning “correctly; properly; rightly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “D’une manière droite, équitable, avec droiture”.
What does droitement mean in English?
adverb
- 1
archaicstraight; straightly
- 2
correctly; properly; rightly
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adverb: 1. D’une manière droite, équitable, avec droiture.
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 droitement?
- /dʁwat.mɑ̃/
- \dʁwat.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is droitement in French?
droitement appears about once in every 79 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).