utilement

\y.til.mɑ̃\

/\y.til.mɑ̃\/ adv

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The verdict

“utilement” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,107. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#42,107
frequency rank, French
456
“U” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière utile.

Corpus desk

Index FR-utilement · utilement · French

utilement · rank #42,107 · 13 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #42,107
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 456
  • PHOTO-FINISH urticaire

Nearest frequency peer: urticaire (-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 « utilement »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « utilement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

utilement vs utilisent
78% similar
utilement vs ultimement
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for utilement
PropertyValue
Headwordutilement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdverb
IPA\y.til.mɑ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#42,107
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « utilement »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).utilementse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « urticaire » (#42,106), « Ursule » (#42,105), « vau » (#42,109). Parmi 456 lemmes en « U », « utilement » est au #42,107. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around utilement (IPA \y.til.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #42,107 among 456 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "D’une manière utile.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for utilement, with forms such as "tuilement", "uitlement", and "utielment". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "utilisent", "ultimement", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 utilement, spelled U-T-I-L-E-M-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    D’une manière utile.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how utilement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il a travaillé utilement pour lui et pour les siens. Employer le temps utilement. Il a très utilement servi l’état.

This word in other languages

usefully(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • tuilement
  • uitlement
  • utielment
  • utileemnt
  • utilemennt
  • utilementt
  • utilemetn
  • utilemment
  • utilemnet
  • utillement
  • utilmeent
  • utliement
  • uttilement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of utilement - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

tuilement2uitlement2utielment2utileemnt2utilemennt1utilementt1utilemetn2utilemment1
Edit distance from "utilement"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "utilement"?
"utilement" is spelled U-T-I-L-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \y.til.mɑ̃\.
What does "utilement" mean?
As an adverb, "utilement" means: D’une manière utile.
What words are commonly confused with "utilement"?
"utilement" is commonly confused with "utilisent", "ultimement". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "utilement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "utilement" is \y.til.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "utilement" come from?
"utilement" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "utilement", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

urticaire#42,106Vaugirard#42,110vectoriel#42,111tungstène#42,100

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

transfer13 variantsAlbertain13 variantsalléchant13 variantsstarting13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list