terriblement
\tɛ.ʁi.blə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“terriblement” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,752. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,752
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - De manière à inspirer de la terreur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-terriblement · terriblement · French
terriblement · rank #9,752 · 17 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,752
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tentation
Nearest frequency peer: tentation (-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 « terriblement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- syndicale
syndicale
90,252 corpus weight
- techno
techno
90,251 corpus weight
- tentation
tentation
90,250 corpus weight
- terriblement
terriblement
90,249 corpus weight
- terribles
terribles
90,248 corpus weight
- Terry
Terry
90,247 corpus weight
What this shows « terriblement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | terriblement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \tɛ.ʁi.blə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #9,752 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « terriblement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around terriblement (IPA \tɛ.ʁi.blə.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #9,752 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for terriblement, with forms such as "etrriblement", "teriblement", and "terirblement". 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. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 terriblement, spelled T-E-R-R-I-B-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1De manière à inspirer de la terreur.
- 2Extrêmement, excessivement.
- 3Un nombre terrible de. Une quantité terrible de.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how terriblement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il tonnait terriblement.
[…] : alors ou la licence excessive, ou la patience poussée à l’extrémité, menacent terriblement les maisons régnantes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etrriblement
- teriblement
- terirblement
- terrbilement
- terribblement
- terribelment
- terribleemnt
- terriblemennt
- terriblementt
- terriblemetn
- terriblemment
- terriblemnet
- terribllement
- terriblmeent
- terrilbement
- treriblement
- tterriblement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of terriblement - 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 "terriblement", 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 (17 here; floor ≥5).