machinalement
French, adverb/ma.ʃi.nal.mɑ̃/
machinalement is spelled M-A-C-H-I-N-A-L-E-M-E-N-T (13 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 46,652nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Machinalement is a French adverb meaning “automatically, mechanically” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “D’une manière machinale”.
What does machinalement mean in English?
adverb
- 1
automatically, mechanically
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adverb: 1. D’une manière machinale.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce machinalement?
- /ma.ʃi.nal.mɑ̃/
- \ma.ʃi.nal.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to machinalement
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is machinalement in French?
machinalement appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).