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facétieusement

French, adverb/fa.se.sjøz.mɑ̃/

facétieusement is spelled F-A-C-É-T-I-E-U-S-E-M-E-N-T (14 letters) and appears about once in every 71 million words in written French, the 264,399th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Facétieusement is a French adverb meaning “facetiously” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “D’une manière facétieuse”.

What does facétieusement mean in English?

adverb

  1. 1

    facetiously

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 facétieuse.

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 facétieusement?

  • /fa.se.sjøz.mɑ̃/
  • \fa.se.sjøz.mɑ̃\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is facétieusement in French?

facétieusement appears about once in every 71 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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