pauvrement
\pɔ.vʁə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“pauvrement” is uncommon French (frequency #74,270 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,270
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - De façon pauvre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pauvrement · pauvrement · French
pauvrement · rank #74,270 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,270
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH partouzes
Nearest frequency peer: partouzes (-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 « pauvrement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pardonnerait
pardonnerait
25,734 corpus weight
- paries
paries
25,733 corpus weight
- partouzes
partouzes
25,732 corpus weight
- pauvrement
pauvrement
25,731 corpus weight
- pencherais
pencherais
25,730 corpus weight
- Pepy
Pepy
25,729 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pauvrement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pauvrement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \pɔ.vʁə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #74,270 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pauvrement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pauvrement is uncommon French at frequency #74,270 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \pɔ.vʁə.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for pauvrement in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pauvrement, spelled P-A-U-V-R-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1De façon pauvre.
- 2Dans une condition insuffisante ; chichement.
- 3D’une manière chétive, malhabile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pauvrement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est un vieillard pauvrement vêtu mais à la figure sympathique encadrée d’une longue barbe blanche, un vrai croyant, fidèle observateur des préceptes hospitaliers de sa foi.
Il est mort au mois de janvier dernier dans un village nommé Vitry, tout près de Paris, une femme qui y vivait assez obscurément, et même assez pauvrement, et qu’on assure avoir été la veuve du czarowitz Alexis, que son père le czar Pierre Iᵉʳ fit mourir.
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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