superficiellement
\sy.pɛʁ.fi.sjɛl.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“superficiellement” is uncommon French (frequency #56,292 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,292
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En superficie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-superficiellement · superficiellement · French
superficiellement · rank #56,292 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,292
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sturm
Nearest frequency peer: Sturm (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « superficiellement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- STMG
STMG
43,712 corpus weight
- stupéfaits
stupéfaits
43,711 corpus weight
- Sturm
Sturm
43,710 corpus weight
- superficiel…
superficiellement
43,709 corpus weight
- supprimera
supprimera
43,708 corpus weight
- surveillanc…
surveillances
43,707 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « superficiellement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | superficiellement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \sy.pɛʁ.fi.sjɛl.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Frequency rank | #56,292 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « superficiellement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
superficiellement is uncommon French at frequency #56,292 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \sy.pɛʁ.fi.sjɛl.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
superficiellement has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is superficiellement, spelled S-U-P-E-R-F-I-C-I-E-L-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1En superficie.
- 2D’une manière superficielle.
- 3D’une manière superficielle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how superficiellement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce champ contient mille mètres superficiellement, c’est-à-dire 1000 mètres carrés.
Libre d’agir à sa guise, loin de tout contrôle, il sauvait seulement les apparences en émiant superficiellement son humus, sans guère se soucier des fondations — pour ce qu’il aurait à y planter !
Synonyms
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); 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 17 letters (nearest by frequency rank).