animosité

\a.ni.mɔ.zi.te\

/\a.ni.mɔ.zi.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“animosité” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,472. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#24,472
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
13
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Disposition persistante de malveillance qui porte à nuire à quelqu’un.

Corpus desk

Index FR-animosite · animosité · French

animosité · rank #24,472 · 13 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #24,472
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH anatomy

Nearest frequency peer: anatomy (-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 « animosité »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « animosité » 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
Key facts for animosité
PropertyValue
Headwordanimosité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ni.mɔ.zi.te\
Letters9
Frequency rank#24,472
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « animosité »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).animositése 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 « anatomy » (#24,471), « another » (#24,473), « aminés » (#24,470). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « animosité » est au #24,472. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around animosité (IPA \a.ni.mɔ.zi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,472 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 animosité, with forms such as "ainmosité", "animmosité", and "animoisté". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is animosité, spelled A-N-I-M-O-S-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Disposition persistante de malveillance qui porte à nuire à quelqu’un.
  2. 2
    Chaleur excessive, d’une certaine violence dans un débat, dans une discussion verbale, dans une querelle de plume.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Ils se cherchèrent plus d’une fois, stimulés par une animosité mutuelle, sachant bien que la chute de l’un ou de l’autre déterminerait la victoire.
  2. — C'est bon, tu as fini de faire des cochonneries avec ton crush numéro 1 ? rigola Lila au téléphone, sans un soupçon d’animosité, de jalousie ou de malveillance.

This word in other languages

animosity(English)animosidad(Español)Animosität(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ainmosité
  • animmosité
  • animoisté
  • animosite
  • animositté
  • animosiét
  • animossité
  • animostié
  • animsoité
  • aniomsité
  • anmiosité
  • annimosité
  • naimosité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

ainmosité2animmosité1animoisté2animosite1animositté1animosiét2animossité1animostié2
Edit distance from "animosité"

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 "animosité"?
"animosité" is spelled A-N-I-M-O-S-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ni.mɔ.zi.te\.
What does "animosité" mean?
As a noun, "animosité" means: Disposition persistante de malveillance qui porte à nuire à quelqu’un.
What are common misspellings of "animosité"?
Common misspellings include "ainmosité", "animmosité", "animoisté", "animosite", "animositté". The correct spelling is "animosité".
How do you pronounce "animosité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "animosité" is \a.ni.mɔ.zi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "animosité" come from?
"animosité" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

apollinaire13 variantsétatiques13 variantsénervant13 variantsbrigands13 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list