rarement

/\ʁaʁ.mɑ̃\/ adv

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,640

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

rarement is anFrenchadv. It means: Peu souvent ; peu fréquemment. Pronounced \ʁaʁ.mɑ̃\. It ranks #2,640 in French word frequency. Often confused with rement and rudement.

Key facts for rarement
PropertyValue
Headwordrarement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\ʁaʁ.mɑ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#2,640
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of rarement in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for rarement is 8 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁaʁ.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,640 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Peu souvent ; peu fréquemment.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for rarement, with forms such as "arrement", "raerment", and "rareemnt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "rement", "rudement", "ramènent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is rarement, spelled R-A-R-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Peu souvent ; peu fréquemment.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: arrement,raerment,rareemnt,raremennt,rarementt,raremetn,raremment,raremnet,rarmeent,rarrement,rraement,rrarement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rarement

Misspelling Variants of "rarement"

arrement8raerment8rareemnt8raremennt9rarementt9raremetn8raremment9raremnet8
Misspelling Variants of "rarement"

Frequency rank: #2,640 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rarement"?
"rarement" is spelled R-A-R-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁaʁ.mɑ̃\.
What does "rarement" mean?
As an adv, "rarement" means: Peu souvent ; peu fréquemment.
What words are commonly confused with "rarement"?
"rarement" is commonly confused with "rement", "rudement", "ramènent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rarement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rarement" is \ʁaʁ.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rarement" come from?
"rarement" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.