sévèrement
\se.vɛʁ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“sévèrement” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,595. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,595
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière sévère ; avec sévérité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-severement · sévèrement · French
sévèrement · rank #10,595 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #10,595
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sérénité
Nearest frequency peer: sérénité (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « sévèrement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sécher
sécher
89,409 corpus weight
- séparées
séparées
89,408 corpus weight
- sérénité
sérénité
89,407 corpus weight
- sévèrement
sévèrement
89,406 corpus weight
- Tee
Tee
89,405 corpus weight
- temples
temples
89,404 corpus weight
What this shows « sévèrement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sévèrement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \se.vɛʁ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #10,595 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sévèrement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around sévèrement (IPA \se.vɛʁ.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #10,595 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for sévèrement, with forms such as "severement", "ssévèrement", and "svéèrement". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "séparément", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is sévèrement, spelled S-É-V-È-R-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière sévère ; avec sévérité.
- 2Beaucoup, avec insistance.
- 3Avec un goût sévère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sévèrement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Réponds de toi-même, frère, ajouta le roi Richard un peu sévèrement.
[…], je lui dictais sévèrement des choses ennuyeuses qu'elle tapait avec une application timide, toute frêle, toute mièvre dans sa robe de confection simili popeline.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- severement
- ssévèrement
- svéèrement
- sévrèement
- sévvèrement
- sévèerment
- sévèreemnt
- sévèremennt
- sévèrementt
- sévèremetn
- sévèremment
- sévèremnet
- sévèrmeent
- sévèrrement
- séèvrement
- ésvèrement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sévèrement - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).