totally
\ˈtoʊt.əl.i\
The verdict
“totally” is uncommon French (frequency #53,031 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,031
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Totalement, complètement, tout à fait.
Corpus desk
Index FR-totally · totally · French
totally · rank #53,031 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,031
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH torpiller
Nearest frequency peer: torpiller (-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 « totally »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Tolbiac
Tolbiac
46,973 corpus weight
- torpiller
torpiller
46,971 corpus weight
- totally
totally
46,970 corpus weight
- Tote
Tote
46,969 corpus weight
- trailers
trailers
46,968 corpus weight
- tranchent
tranchent
46,967 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « totally » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | totally |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ˈtoʊt.əl.i\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,031 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « totally » en français
Rare enough to double-check
totally is uncommon French at frequency #53,031 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \ˈtoʊt.əl.i\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Totalement, complètement, tout à fait.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for totally in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 totally, spelled T-O-T-A-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Totalement, complètement, tout à fait.
Synonyms
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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