secondairement
\sə.ɡɔ̃.dɛʁ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“secondairement” is uncommon French (frequency #67,105 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,105
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière secondaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-secondairement · secondairement · French
secondairement · rank #67,105 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,105
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH SDE
Nearest frequency peer: SDE (-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 « secondairement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- SCR
SCR
32,899 corpus weight
- sculpturale
sculpturale
32,898 corpus weight
- SDE
SDE
32,897 corpus weight
- secondairem…
secondairement
32,896 corpus weight
- sensationna…
sensationnalisme
32,894 corpus weight
- sentions
sentions
32,893 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « secondairement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | secondairement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \sə.ɡɔ̃.dɛʁ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #67,105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « secondairement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
secondairement is uncommon French at frequency #67,105 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \sə.ɡɔ̃.dɛʁ.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
secondairement has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is secondairement, spelled S-E-C-O-N-D-A-I-R-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière secondaire.
- 2Dans l’enseignement secondaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how secondairement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans le pays dijonnais, la demande solvable de crédit est d'abord une demande de crédit à l'agriculture, ensuite une demande de crédit à la consommation, secondairement enfin une demande émanant de ceux qui se livrent au négoce.
Éduqué catholiquement, les interdits me furent d’abord éthiques. Puis, instruit secondairement et universitairement, l’apprentissage devint esthétique.
Synonyms
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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