absurdité

\ap.syʁ.di.te\

/\ap.syʁ.di.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“absurdité” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,053. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#17,053
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de ce qui est absurde.

Corpus desk

Index FR-absurdite · absurdité · French

absurdité · rank #17,053 · 14 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #17,053
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH achètes

Nearest frequency peer: achètes (+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 « absurdité »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « absurdité » 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).

absurdité vs absurdités
90% similar
absurdité vs absurde
67% similar
absurdité vs abstraite
67% similar

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

Key facts for absurdité
PropertyValue
Headwordabsurdité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ap.syʁ.di.te\
Letters9
Frequency rank#17,053
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « absurdité »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.absurditése place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « achètes » (#17,054), « étonnes » (#17,051), « affichant » (#17,055). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « absurdité » est au #17,053. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around absurdité (IPA \ap.syʁ.di.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,053 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for absurdité, with forms such as "abbsurdité", "absrudité", and "abssurdité". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "absurdités", "absurde", "abstraite", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 absurdité, spelled A-B-S-U-R-D-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Caractère de ce qui est absurde.
  2. 2
    Chose même qui est absurde.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le mouvement pacifiste, au XXᵉ siècle, a été très largement porté par les femmes, plus sensibles que les hommes à l’absurdité d'une puissance qui s'édifie en semant la mort, et qui appelle « champs d'honneur » les lieux des pires massacres.
  2. L’absurdité de la crise des dettes souveraines, qui conduit à faire payer de plus en plus les États les plus affaiblis pour alimenter la spéculation financière, a depuis plusieurs mois des conséquences dramatiques sur la vie quotidienne de nombreux citoyens européens.

Synonyms

absurdeincohérencenon-sens

This word in other languages

absurdity(English)absurdo(Español)Absurdität(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • abbsurdité
  • absrudité
  • abssurdité
  • absudrité
  • absurddité
  • absurdite
  • absurditté
  • absurdiét
  • absurdtié
  • absuridté
  • absurrdité
  • abusrdité
  • asburdité
  • basurdité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

abbsurdité1absrudité2abssurdité1absudrité2absurddité1absurdite1absurditté1absurdiét2
Edit distance from "absurdité"

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 "absurdité"?
"absurdité" is spelled A-B-S-U-R-D-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ap.syʁ.di.te\.
What does "absurdité" mean?
As a noun, "absurdité" means: Caractère de ce qui est absurde.
What words are commonly confused with "absurdité"?
"absurdité" is commonly confused with "absurdités", "absurde", "abstraite". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "absurdité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "absurdité" is \ap.syʁ.di.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "absurdité" come from?
"absurdité" 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 "absurdité", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

affichant#17,055éducative#17,046Amériques#17,064anticorps#17,067

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

alcoolisme14 variantsbicyclette14 variantscentriste14 variantsChamplain14 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list