acuité
\a.kɥi.te\
The verdict
“acuité” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,680. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,680
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité de ce qui est aigu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-acuite · acuité · French
acuité · rank #27,680 · 8 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,680
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH acquièrent
Nearest frequency peer: acquièrent (-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 « acuité »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- achetait
achetait
72,324 corpus weight
- acolytes
acolytes
72,323 corpus weight
- acquièrent
acquièrent
72,322 corpus weight
- acuité
acuité
72,321 corpus weight
- ADEME
ADEME
72,320 corpus weight
- affrontera
affrontera
72,319 corpus weight
What this shows « acuité » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acuité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.kɥi.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #27,680 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « acuité »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around acuité (IPA \a.kɥi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,680 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for acuité, with forms such as "accuité", "aciuté", and "acuite". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "agité", "adulte", "ajuste", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is acuité, spelled A-C-U-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qualité de ce qui est aigu.
- 2Qualité de la perception sensorielle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how acuité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et en effet si, à cette époque, il lui arriva souvent sans se l’avouer de désirer la mort, c’était pour échapper moins à l’acuité de ses souffrances qu’à la monotonie de son effort.
Mais la gravité des événements lui donna tout-à-coup une acuité tragique. Ce fut la guerre civile dans toute son horreur, laquelle ne devait prendre fin que par l'occupation étrangère.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- accuité
- aciuté
- acuite
- acuitté
- acuiét
- acutié
- aucité
- cauité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of acuité - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "acuité", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).