altitude
\al.ti.tyd\
The verdict
“altitude” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,823. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,823
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hauteur d’un lieu par rapport au niveau de la mer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-altitude · altitude · French
altitude · rank #4,823 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,823
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alimentaires
Nearest frequency peer: alimentaires (-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 « altitude »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- évaluer
évaluer
95,181 corpus weight
- 3d
3d
95,180 corpus weight
- alimentaires
alimentaires
95,179 corpus weight
- altitude
altitude
95,178 corpus weight
- amuser
amuser
95,177 corpus weight
- animé
animé
95,176 corpus weight
What this shows « altitude » 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 | altitude |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.ti.tyd\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,823 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « altitude »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around altitude (IPA \al.ti.tyd\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,823 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for altitude, with forms such as "alittude", "alltitude", and "altitdue". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "attitude", "aptitude", "attitudes", and more, 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is altitude, spelled A-L-T-I-T-U-D-E.
Definition
- 1Hauteur d’un lieu par rapport au niveau de la mer.
- 2Hauteur.
- 3Qualifie les lieux situés à haute altitude.
- 4Distance verticale d'un lieu à une surface de référence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how altitude appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À de grandes altitudes planaient les frégates et les phaétons, qui tombaient souvent avec une rapidité vertigineuse pour arracher en l’air leur proie aux oiseaux de mer plongeurs.
Puisqu’au ras de l’eau il n’y avait pas de passage libre, nous avons pensé en trouver en altitude.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alittude
- alltitude
- altitdue
- altittude
- altitudde
- altitued
- altiutde
- alttitude
- alttiude
- atlitude
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of altitude - 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.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).