Do both mean exactly the same or do they have slightly different meanings?
Learn English – ny difference between ‘often’ and ‘frequently’
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Do both mean exactly the same or do they have slightly different meanings?
Best Answer
Personally I would put more of a regular scheme to frequently, as the word comes from the same stem as frequency (a sine curve of certain wave length, therefore repeating itself in a certain pattern). Often would denote more of an irregularity.
Maybe this is a déformation professionel, as I am programmer with a math background, or I derive it from German and Latin languages, for example French:
fréquenter quelquechose would mean to regularly go somewhere.
Therefore I would hear this