longitudinalement
\lɔ̃.ʒi.ty.di.nal.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“longitudinalement” is uncommon French (frequency #86,879 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,879
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière longitudinale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-longitudinalement · longitudinalement · French
longitudinalement · rank #86,879 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,879
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH limo
Nearest frequency peer: limo (-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 « longitudinalement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lignine
lignine
13,124 corpus weight
- limo
limo
13,123 corpus weight
- longitudina…
longitudinalement
13,122 corpus weight
- louka
louka
13,121 corpus weight
- louveteau
louveteau
13,120 corpus weight
- LRU
LRU
13,119 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « longitudinalement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | longitudinalement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \lɔ̃.ʒi.ty.di.nal.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Frequency rank | #86,879 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « longitudinalement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
longitudinalement is uncommon French at frequency #86,879 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \lɔ̃.ʒi.ty.di.nal.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
longitudinalement has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is longitudinalement, spelled L-O-N-G-I-T-U-D-I-N-A-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière longitudinale.
- 2En longueur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how longitudinalement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un polype coupé transversalement ou longitudinalement en deux ou plusieurs parties, ne meurt point, mais chaque partie devient en peu de temps un polype complet.
La conduite principale est constituée d'un tuyau Bonna en béton précontraint radialement et longitudinalement de 35 km dont 3 km en aérien pour franchir les marigots ; les tuyaux sont fabriqués sur place par centrifugation et essayés à des pressions variant de 4 à 9 kg/cm2.
Antonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 17 letters (nearest by frequency rank).