sérieusement

Name: sérieusement, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\se.ʁjøz.mɑ̃\

/\se.ʁjøz.mɑ̃\/ adv

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“sérieusement” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,252. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,252
frequency rank, French: 6,032
“S” headwords: 18
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière sérieuse, grave.

Corpus desk

Index FR-serieusement · sérieusement · French

sérieusement · rank #2,252 · 18 variants · 0 confusables

FREQ-COMMON #2,252
LEN-MEGA 12 letters
VOW-6 6 vowels
CONFUS-0 No pairs
VAR-HIGH 18 variants
BOOK-DENSE 6,032
PHOTO-FINISH souviens

Nearest frequency peer: souviens (-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.

savait

97,752
serai

97,751
souviens

97,750
sérieusement

97,749
travaillé

97,748
unités

97,747

What this shows « sérieusement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Key facts for sérieusement
Property	Value
Headword	sérieusement
Language	French
Part of speech	Adverb
IPA	\se.ʁjøz.mɑ̃\
Letters	12
Frequency rank	#2,252
Misspellings tracked	18
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sérieusement »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).sérieusementse place ici:

#2,252

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « souviens » (#2,251), « travaillé » (#2,253), « serai » (#2,250). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sérieusement » est au #2,252. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 18 spelling variants around sérieusement (IPA \se.ʁjøz.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #2,252 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for sérieusement, with forms such as "serieusement", "sréieusement", and "ssérieusement". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sérieusement, spelled S-É-R-I-E-U-S-E-M-E-N-T.

Definition

1
D’une manière sérieuse, grave.
2
Sans plaisanterie.
3
Froidement.
4
Véritablement, avec application, avec ardeur, tout de bon, d’une façon déterminée.
5
Au sens superlatif : très, fortement.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how sérieusement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Si on n'est pas obligé de parler du culte d’autrui avec révérence, on est obligé d’en parler sérieusement,
Mais, sérieusement, que voulez-vous qu’on fasse ?

Synonyms

au sérieuxfortement grandement gravement horriblement profondément rigoureusement soigneusement tout de bon vraiment

This word in other languages

seriously(English)en serio(Español)ernst(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

serieusement
sréieusement
ssérieusement
séireusement
séreiusement
sériesuement
sérieuesment
sérieuseemnt
sérieusemennt
sérieusementt
sérieusemetn
sérieusemment
sérieusemnet
sérieusmeent
sérieussement
sériuesement
sérrieusement
ésrieusement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sérieusement - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

Edit distance from "sérieusement"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sérieusement"?

"sérieusement" is spelled S-É-R-I-E-U-S-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \se.ʁjøz.mɑ̃\.

What does "sérieusement" mean?

As an adverb, "sérieusement" means: D’une manière sérieuse, grave.

What are common misspellings of "sérieusement"?

Common misspellings include "serieusement", "sréieusement", "ssérieusement", "séireusement", "séreiusement". The correct spelling is "sérieusement".

How do you pronounce "sérieusement"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sérieusement" is \se.ʁjøz.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "sérieusement" come from?

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Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sérieusement", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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Similar misspelling depth

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