fortuitement
\fɔʁ.tɥit.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“fortuitement” is uncommon French (frequency #60,025 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,025
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière fortuite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fortuitement · fortuitement · French
fortuitement · rank #60,025 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,025
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fluorescents
Nearest frequency peer: fluorescents (-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 « fortuitement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fives
fives
39,979 corpus weight
- florissantes
florissantes
39,978 corpus weight
- fluorescents
fluorescents
39,977 corpus weight
- fortuitement
fortuitement
39,976 corpus weight
- fouta
fouta
39,974 corpus weight
- foutant
foutant
39,973 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fortuitement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fortuitement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.tɥit.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #60,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fortuitement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fortuitement is uncommon French at frequency #60,025 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \fɔʁ.tɥit.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "D’une manière fortuite.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fortuitement, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fortuitement, spelled F-O-R-T-U-I-T-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière fortuite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fortuitement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cela est arrivé fortuitement.
La nature n'agit point fortuitement, au hasard et sans dessein.
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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