honnêtement

Name: honnêtement, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\ɔ.nɛt.mɑ̃\

/\ɔ.nɛt.mɑ̃\/ adv

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“honnêtement” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,872. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,872
frequency rank, French: 1,969
“H” headwords: 16
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Avec les bienséances qu’exige la société.

Corpus desk

Index FR-honnetement · honnêtement · French

honnêtement · rank #5,872 · 16 variants · 0 confusables

FREQ-COMMON #5,872
LEN-MEGA 11 letters
VOW-4 4 vowels
CONFUS-0 No pairs
VAR-HIGH 16 variants
BOOK-MID 1,969
PHOTO-FINISH good

Nearest frequency peer: good (-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.

foire

94,132
fun

94,131
good

94,130
honnêtement

94,129
horaire

94,128
huitième

94,127

What this shows « honnêtement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Key facts for honnêtement
Property	Value
Headword	honnêtement
Language	French
Part of speech	Adverb
IPA	\ɔ.nɛt.mɑ̃\
Letters	11
Frequency rank	#5,872
Misspellings tracked	16
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « honnêtement »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).honnêtementse place ici:

#5,872

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « good » (#5,871), « horaire » (#5,873), « fun » (#5,870). Parmi 1,969 lemmes en « H », « honnêtement » est au #5,872. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around honnêtement (IPA \ɔ.nɛt.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #5,872 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for honnêtement, with forms such as "hhonnêtement", "hnonêtement", and "honnetement". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is honnêtement, spelled H-O-N-N-Ê-T-E-M-E-N-T.

Definition

1
Avec les bienséances qu’exige la société.
2
D’une manière honnête, honorable.
3
En honnête homme, au sens du XVIIᵉ siècle.
4
Suffisamment ; passablement.
5
En toute bonne foi ; pour être honnête.
6
Ironiquement.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how honnêtement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Il lui a parlé fort honnêtement. Il l’a reçu le plus honnêtement du monde.
Je veux vivre honnêtement avec tous ces messieurs quand j'en rencontrerai, sans jamais disputer avec eux.

Synonyms

bien convenablement correctement dignement honorablement moyennement passablement proprement suffisamment valablement

Antonyms

Déshonnêtement

This word in other languages

decently(English)honestamente(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

hhonnêtement
hnonêtement
honnetement
honntêement
honnêetment
honnêteemnt
honnêtemennt
honnêtementt
honnêtemetn
honnêtemment
honnêtemnet
honnêtmeent
honnêttement
honêntement
honêtement
ohnnêtement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of honnêtement - 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.

Edit distance from "honnêtement"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "honnêtement"?

"honnêtement" is spelled H-O-N-N-Ê-T-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔ.nɛt.mɑ̃\.

What does "honnêtement" mean?

As an adverb, "honnêtement" means: Avec les bienséances qu’exige la société.

What are common misspellings of "honnêtement"?

Common misspellings include "hhonnêtement", "hnonêtement", "honnetement", "honntêement", "honnêetment". The correct spelling is "honnêtement".

How do you pronounce "honnêtement"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "honnêtement" is \ɔ.nɛt.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "honnêtement" come from?

"honnêtement" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "honnêtement", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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