effroyablement
\e.fʁwa.ja.blə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“effroyablement” is uncommon French (frequency #82,905 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,905
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière effroyable, excessive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-effroyablement · effroyablement · French
effroyablement · rank #82,905 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,905
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH effrayées
Nearest frequency peer: effrayées (-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 « effroyablement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ecco
ecco
17,099 corpus weight
- effarouchée
effarouchée
17,098 corpus weight
- effrayées
effrayées
17,097 corpus weight
- effroyablem…
effroyablement
17,096 corpus weight
- Ehe
Ehe
17,095 corpus weight
- Emanuele
Emanuele
17,093 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « effroyablement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | effroyablement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \e.fʁwa.ja.blə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #82,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « effroyablement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
effroyablement is uncommon French at frequency #82,905 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \e.fʁwa.ja.blə.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "D’une manière effroyable, excessive.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for effroyablement in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 effroyablement, spelled E-F-F-R-O-Y-A-B-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière effroyable, excessive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how effroyablement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au contraire, en arrière-plan des falaises, […], le pays, effroyablement convulsionné, indiquait clairement qu'il devait son origine à un soulèvement éruptif.
[…], Bert se rendit compte de l’immense tragédie qui ébranlait l’humanité, […] ; il comprit qu’arrivait une époque où l’univers se désorganisait effroyablement, où c’en était fini de la sécurité, de l’ordre, de l’habitude…
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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