adversité

\ad.vɛʁ.si.te\

/\ad.vɛʁ.si.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“adversité” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,845. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#24,845
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État, situation de celui qui éprouve les rigueurs du sort.

Corpus desk

Index FR-adversite · adversité · French

adversité · rank #24,845 · 14 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #24,845
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH admissibles

Nearest frequency peer: admissibles (-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 « adversité »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « adversité » 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).

adversité vs adverse
67% similar
adversité vs adversaire
70% similar

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

Key facts for adversité
PropertyValue
Headwordadversité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ad.vɛʁ.si.te\
Letters9
Frequency rank#24,845
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « adversité »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).adversitése place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « admissibles » (#24,844), « agissez » (#24,846), « admirez » (#24,843). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « adversité » est au #24,845. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around adversité (IPA \ad.vɛʁ.si.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,845 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "État, situation de celui qui éprouve les rigueurs du sort.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for adversité, with forms such as "addversité", "adevrsité", and "adveristé". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "adverse", "adversaire", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is adversité, spelled A-D-V-E-R-S-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    État, situation de celui qui éprouve les rigueurs du sort.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Être dans l’adversité. — Tomber dans l’adversité.
  2. Être constant dans l’adversité. — Succomber à l’adversité.

This word in other languages

adversity(English)adversidad(Español)Widrigkeit(Deutsch)adversidade(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • addversité
  • adevrsité
  • adveristé
  • adverrsité
  • adversite
  • adversitté
  • adversiét
  • adverssité
  • adverstié
  • advesrité
  • advresité
  • advversité
  • avdersité
  • daversité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

addversité1adevrsité2adveristé2adverrsité1adversite1adversitté1adversiét2adverssité1
Edit distance from "adversité"

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 "adversité"?
"adversité" is spelled A-D-V-E-R-S-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ad.vɛʁ.si.te\.
What does "adversité" mean?
As a noun, "adversité" means: État, situation de celui qui éprouve les rigueurs du sort.
What words are commonly confused with "adversité"?
"adversité" is commonly confused with "adverse", "adversaire". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "adversité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "adversité" is \ad.vɛʁ.si.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "adversité" come from?
"adversité" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

accumulés#24,838évangiles#24,831épiceries#24,826éloquence#24,823

Similar misspelling depth

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

améliorées14 variantségalitaire14 variantsvulgarité14 variantsbouleverse14 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list