adultère

\a.dyl.tɛʁ\

/\a.dyl.tɛʁ\/ adj

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The verdict

“adultère” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,079. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#15,079
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui viole le serment de fidélité conjugale.

Corpus desk

Index FR-adultere · adultère · French

adultère · rank #15,079 · 12 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #15,079
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH admirable

Nearest frequency peer: admirable (-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 « adultère »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « adultère » 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).

adultère vs altéré
50% similar
adultère vs adultes
63% similar
adultère vs adulte
75% similar

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

Key facts for adultère
PropertyValue
Headwordadultère
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\a.dyl.tɛʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#15,079
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « adultère »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.adultèrese 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 « admirable » (#15,078), « agroalimentaire » (#15,080), « acquitter » (#15,077). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « adultère » est au #15,079. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around adultère (IPA \a.dyl.tɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,079 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for adultère, with forms such as "addultère", "adlutère", and "adulltère". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "altéré", "adultes", "adulte", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is adultère, spelled A-D-U-L-T-È-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui viole le serment de fidélité conjugale.
  2. 2
    Se dit des choses qui offrent un mélange vicieux.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. De plus, on assimile volontiers les femmes adultères aux prostituées et la pratique de la fornication, prostibulaire ou adultère, suppose le mensonge ou la clandestinité, comme l’ont si bien illustré les fabliaux, qui insistent sur les mensonges de l’épouse volage.
  2. Ne jetez pas la pierre à la femme adultère, Je suis derrière…

Synonyms

extramaritalinfidèlevolage

This word in other languages

adulterous(English)adúltero(Español)ehebrecherisch(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • addultère
  • adlutère
  • adulltère
  • adultere
  • adultrèe
  • adulttère
  • adultèer
  • adultèrre
  • adulètre
  • adutlère
  • audltère
  • daultère

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of adultère - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

addultère1adlutère2adulltère1adultere1adultrèe2adulttère1adultèer2adultèrre1
Edit distance from "adultère"

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 "adultère"?
"adultère" is spelled A-D-U-L-T-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.dyl.tɛʁ\.
What does "adultère" mean?
As an adjective, "adultère" means: Qui viole le serment de fidélité conjugale.
What words are commonly confused with "adultère"?
"adultère" is commonly confused with "altéré", "adultes", "adulte". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "adultère"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "adultère" is \a.dyl.tɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "adultère" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "adultère", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

équateur#15,071arrêtées#15,091vétérans#15,061calvados#15,102

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

tracteur12 variantsThéodore12 variantstertiaire12 variantscrevettes12 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list