sottement
\sɔt.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“sottement” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une sotte façon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sottement · sottement · French
sottement · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sottement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \sɔt.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sottement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sottement is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \sɔt.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "D’une sotte façon.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sottement, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sottement, spelled S-O-T-T-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une sotte façon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sottement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En montant un vaste escalier à tapis, où je remarquai toutes les recherches du comfort anglais, le cœur me battit; j’en rougissais, je démentais mon origine, mes sentiments, ma fierté, j’étais sottement bourgeois.
La mère Pailler qui n’y voyait point trop pour détrier les morceaux trempés, gorgés de souillure, s’apprêtait à gourmander celui qui lui bouchait sottement la lumière lorsque, levant la tête, elle s’écria : - Ah, l’Alban !
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.