adolescente
\a.dɔ.lɛ.sɑ̃t\
The verdict
“adolescente” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,514. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,514
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeune fille pubère qui n’est plus une enfant et qui est en train de devenir une adulte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-adolescente · adolescente · French
adolescente · rank #11,514 · 16 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,514
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH accusée
Nearest frequency peer: accusée (-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 « adolescente »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- étudiantes
étudiantes
88,490 corpus weight
- 8e
8e
88,489 corpus weight
- accusée
accusée
88,488 corpus weight
- adolescente
adolescente
88,487 corpus weight
- affichent
affichent
88,486 corpus weight
- agneau
agneau
88,485 corpus weight
What this shows « adolescente » 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 | adolescente |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.dɔ.lɛ.sɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #11,514 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « adolescente »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around adolescente (IPA \a.dɔ.lɛ.sɑ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,514 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Jeune fille pubère qui n’est plus une enfant et qui est en train de devenir une adulte.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for adolescente, with forms such as "addolescente", "adloescente", and "adoelscente". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "adolescents", "adolescentes", "adolescent", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is adolescente, spelled A-D-O-L-E-S-C-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Jeune fille pubère qui n’est plus une enfant et qui est en train de devenir une adulte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how adolescente appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au cours des huit dernières années présentées dans ce livre, l’auteur a noté sur le vif des scènes de la vie de l’adolescente au milieu des siens, ou avec les personnes qui l’aident aussi à prendre conscience d’elle-même, des autres, et du monde qui l’entoure.
Durant l’avant-midi, l’adolescente n'avait pu s'empêcher de se plaindre de l’indiscipline de ses deux frères qui acceptaient mal son autorité.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- addolescente
- adloescente
- adoelscente
- adolecsente
- adolesccente
- adolescenet
- adolescennte
- adolescentte
- adolescetne
- adolescnete
- adolesecnte
- adolesscente
- adollescente
- adolsecente
- aodlescente
- daolescente
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of adolescente - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).