spécialement
\spe.sjal.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“spécialement” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,225. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,225
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière spéciale, en désignant une personne, une chose particulière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-specialement · spécialement · French
spécialement · rank #3,225 · 19 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #3,225
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sportif
Nearest frequency peer: sportif (-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 « spécialement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- salaires
salaires
96,779 corpus weight
- sexuelle
sexuelle
96,778 corpus weight
- sportif
sportif
96,777 corpus weight
- spécialement
spécialement
96,776 corpus weight
- spécifique
spécifique
96,775 corpus weight
- technologies
technologies
96,773 corpus weight
What this shows « spécialement » 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 | spécialement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \spe.sjal.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #3,225 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « spécialement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around spécialement (IPA \spe.sjal.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #3,225 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for spécialement, with forms such as "psécialement", "spcéialement", and "specialement". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "socialement", 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is spécialement, spelled S-P-É-C-I-A-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière spéciale, en désignant une personne, une chose particulière.
- 2Tout particulièrement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how spécialement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plongez en plein cœur du Moyen Âge dans le village de Condat-sur-Vézère, en Dordogne, spécialement décoré pour l’occasion ce dimanche 21 août.
[…], mais c'est au Bombyx du mûrier que l'on attribue spécialement la production de soie telle qu'elle est universellement employée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psécialement
- spcéialement
- specialement
- sppécialement
- spécailement
- spéccialement
- spéciaelment
- spécialeemnt
- spécialemennt
- spécialementt
- spécialemetn
- spécialemment
- spécialemnet
- spéciallement
- spécialmeent
- spécilaement
- spéicalement
- sspécialement
- sépcialement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spécialement - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "spécialement", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).