souventement
The verdict
“souventement” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - souvent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-souventement · souventement · French
souventement · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | souventement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « souventement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
souventement is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "souvent.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for souventement, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 souventement, spelled S-O-U-V-E-N-T-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1souvent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how souventement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Souventement aussi nous vîmes et franchîmes des villages, qu’ils fussent indiens ou français ou levés de terre et occupés un temps par des colons venus d’Allemagne et même d’Alsace qui est, m’apprit Gabin Duvar – qui tout perdu qu’il fût dans les forêts depuis toujours le savait –, une sorte de comté voisinant la France.
Un jour, l’un des choristes lui demanda si l’oisiveté était un « gros péché », car précisa-t-il, « souventement l’envie lui venait de vaguer sur les chemins » sans autre occupation que méloper jusqu’à l’ivresse.
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.