altruisme
\al.tʁɥism\
The verdict
“altruisme” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,627. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,627
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Disposition à s’occuper d’autrui, à s’y intéresser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-altruisme · altruisme · French
altruisme · rank #29,627 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #29,627
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH allouer
Nearest frequency peer: allouer (-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 « altruisme »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- agissons
agissons
70,377 corpus weight
- agressés
agressés
70,376 corpus weight
- allouer
allouer
70,375 corpus weight
- altruisme
altruisme
70,374 corpus weight
- amicalement
amicalement
70,371 corpus weight
- amp
amp
70,370 corpus weight
What this shows « altruisme » 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 | altruisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.tʁɥism\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #29,627 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « altruisme »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around altruisme (IPA \al.tʁɥism\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,627 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for altruisme, with forms such as "alltruisme", "alrtuisme", and "altriusme". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "altruiste", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is altruisme, spelled A-L-T-R-U-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Disposition à s’occuper d’autrui, à s’y intéresser.
- 2Sentiment d’amour instinctif ou réfléchi pour autrui.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how altruisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'altruisme est souvent présenté comme une valeur morale suprême, aussi bien dans les sociétés religieuses que laïques. Pourtant, il n'aurait guère de place dans un monde entièrement régi par la compétition et l'individualisme. Certains s'insurgent même contre le « diktat de l'altruisme », qu'ils perçoivent comme une exigence de sacrifice, et prônent les…
On peut être athée et posséder en premier lieu l'altruisme, qui est une qualité génétiquement inscrite dans l'être humain autant que le désir sexuel.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alltruisme
- alrtuisme
- altriusme
- altrruisme
- altruimse
- altruisem
- altruismme
- altruissme
- altrusime
- alttruisme
- alturisme
- atlruisme
- latruisme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of altruisme - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).