littéralement
\li.te.ʁal.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“littéralement” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,248. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,248
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une façon littérale ; à la lettre ; hors de toute interprétation imagée, figurée ou symbolique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-litteralement · littéralement · French
littéralement · rank #4,248 · 19 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #4,248
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lentement
Nearest frequency peer: lentement (-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 « littéralement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- jules
jules
95,756 corpus weight
- Justin
Justin
95,755 corpus weight
- lentement
lentement
95,754 corpus weight
- littéraleme…
littéralement
95,753 corpus weight
- légale
légale
95,752 corpus weight
- marcel
marcel
95,751 corpus weight
What this shows « littéralement » 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 | littéralement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \li.te.ʁal.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #4,248 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « littéralement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around littéralement (IPA \li.te.ʁal.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #4,248 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for littéralement, with forms such as "ilttéralement", "litteralement", and "littréalement". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "latéralement", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is littéralement, spelled L-I-T-T-É-R-A-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une façon littérale ; à la lettre ; hors de toute interprétation imagée, figurée ou symbolique.
- 2Totalement, absolument ; vraiment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how littéralement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lire littéralement les textes sacrés rime à refuser de prendre de la maturité intellectuelle, c'est se refuser à l'âge adulte de la raison.
La troupe se mit en marche à l’indienne, c’est-à-dire en tournant littéralement le dos à l’endroit vers lequel elle se dirigeait.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilttéralement
- litteralement
- littréalement
- littéarlement
- littéraelment
- littéraleemnt
- littéralemennt
- littéralementt
- littéralemetn
- littéralemment
- littéralemnet
- littérallement
- littéralmeent
- littérlaement
- littérralement
- litéralement
- litétralement
- llittéralement
- ltitéralement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of littéralement - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).