follement
\fɔl.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“follement” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,816. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,816
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière folle, imprudente, excessive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-follement · follement · French
follement · rank #27,816 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,816
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fleurons
Nearest frequency peer: fleurons (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « follement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fleurie
fleurie
72,188 corpus weight
- fleurissent
fleurissent
72,187 corpus weight
- fleurons
fleurons
72,186 corpus weight
- follement
follement
72,185 corpus weight
- funky
funky
72,184 corpus weight
- fuseau
fuseau
72,183 corpus weight
What this shows « follement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | follement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \fɔl.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #27,816 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « follement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around follement (IPA \fɔl.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #27,816 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "D’une manière folle, imprudente, excessive.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for follement, with forms such as "ffollement", "flolement", and "folelment". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "fortement", "fondement", "forcement", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is follement, spelled F-O-L-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière folle, imprudente, excessive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how follement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il se souvint tout à coup d'une vieille chronique où il avait, pour flétrir, stigmatiser, juvénaliser les comportements bourgeois, […] projeté le feu rouge des catachrèses les plus imprévues, des synecdoches les plus arbitraires, des antonomases les plus follement tirées par les cheveux, […].
Malgré moi, les doigts de mes deux mains s'agitèrent follement.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffollement
- flolement
- folelment
- folement
- folleemnt
- follemennt
- follementt
- follemetn
- follemment
- follemnet
- follmeent
- ofllement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of follement - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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