weekly

/\ˈwik.li\/ adj

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#30,025

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

weekly is anFrenchadj. It means: Hebdomadaire. Pronounced \ˈwik.li\. Often confused with weeks and week.

Key facts for weekly
PropertyValue
Headwordweekly
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ˈwik.li\
Letters6
Frequency rank#30,025
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of weekly in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for weekly is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈwik.li\. Corpus data places it at rank #30,025 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Hebdomadaire.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for weekly, with forms such as "ewekly", "weekkly", and "weeklly". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "weeks", "week", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is weekly, spelled W-E-E-K-L-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Hebdomadaire.

Synonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ewekly,weekkly,weeklly,weeklyy,weekyl,weelky,wekely,wekly,wweekly

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for weekly

Misspelling Variants of "weekly"

ewekly6weekkly7weeklly7weeklyy7weekyl6weelky6wekely6wekly5
Misspelling Variants of "weekly"

Frequency rank: #30,025 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "weekly"?
"weekly" is spelled W-E-E-K-L-Y. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈwik.li\.
What does "weekly" mean?
As an adj, "weekly" means: Hebdomadaire.
What words are commonly confused with "weekly"?
"weekly" is commonly confused with "weeks", "week". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "weekly"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "weekly" is \ˈwik.li\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "weekly" come from?
"weekly" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.