fébrilement
\fe.bʁil.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“fébrilement” is uncommon French (frequency #63,013 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,013
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière fébrile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-febrilement · fébrilement · French
fébrilement · rank #63,013 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,013
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fusionnel
Nearest frequency peer: fusionnel (-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 « fébrilement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- FSC
FSC
36,992 corpus weight
- fusionnel
fusionnel
36,989 corpus weight
- fébrilement
fébrilement
36,988 corpus weight
- Félicie
Félicie
36,987 corpus weight
- galactic
galactic
36,985 corpus weight
- gaude
gaude
36,984 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fébrilement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fébrilement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \fe.bʁil.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #63,013 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fébrilement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fébrilement is uncommon French at frequency #63,013 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \fe.bʁil.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "D’une manière fébrile.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for fébrilement in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is fébrilement, spelled F-É-B-R-I-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière fébrile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fébrilement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La saison des vide-greniers s'ouvre alors que le printemps pointe, pour la plus grande joie de tous leurs amateurs. Ceux-ci, vendeurs, « déballent » aux aurores sur des tréteaux branlants, ou « chineurs », farfouillent fébrilement dans les tas de vieilleries au charme désuet, en quête de la perle rare.
J’avais cherché fébrilement de la monnaie dans mes poches pendant que les feux de détresse de la VW stationnée en double file clignotaient.
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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