horriblement
\ɔ.ʁi.blə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“horriblement” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,586. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,586
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière horrible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-horriblement · horriblement · French
horriblement · rank #22,586 · 17 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,586
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hopkins
Nearest frequency peer: Hopkins (-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 « horriblement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- hippie
hippie
77,418 corpus weight
- hisser
hisser
77,417 corpus weight
- Hopkins
Hopkins
77,416 corpus weight
- horriblement
horriblement
77,415 corpus weight
- Hyde
Hyde
77,414 corpus weight
- imaginait
imaginait
77,413 corpus weight
What this shows « horriblement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | horriblement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ɔ.ʁi.blə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #22,586 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « horriblement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around horriblement (IPA \ɔ.ʁi.blə.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #22,586 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for horriblement, with forms such as "hhorriblement", "horiblement", and "horirblement". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is horriblement, spelled H-O-R-R-I-B-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière horrible.
- 2Très mal.
- 3Extrêmement ; excessivement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how horriblement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des corps mutilés horriblement.
Sa chevelure blême, en lanières épaisses, Crépitait au travers de l’ombre horriblement ; Et, derrière, en un rauque et long bourdonnement, Se déroulaient, selon la taille et les espèces, Les bêtes de la terre et du haut firmament.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhorriblement
- horiblement
- horirblement
- horrbilement
- horribblement
- horribelment
- horribleemnt
- horriblemennt
- horriblementt
- horriblemetn
- horriblemment
- horriblemnet
- horribllement
- horriblmeent
- horrilbement
- hroriblement
- ohrriblement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of horriblement - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).