aptitude
\ap.ti.tyd\
The verdict
“aptitude” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,306. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,306
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capacité, compétence, disposition naturelle à faire quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aptitude · aptitude · French
aptitude · rank #12,306 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,306
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH appartenir
Nearest frequency peer: appartenir (-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 « aptitude »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- anthropolog…
anthropologie
87,698 corpus weight
- anus
anus
87,697 corpus weight
- appartenir
appartenir
87,696 corpus weight
- aptitude
aptitude
87,695 corpus weight
- Arizona
Arizona
87,694 corpus weight
- atmosphériq…
atmosphérique
87,693 corpus weight
What this shows « aptitude » 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 | aptitude |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ap.ti.tyd\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « aptitude »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around aptitude (IPA \ap.ti.tyd\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,306 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for aptitude, with forms such as "apittude", "apptitude", and "aptitdue". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "attitude", "attitudes", "aptitudes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is aptitude, spelled A-P-T-I-T-U-D-E.
Definition
- 1Capacité, compétence, disposition naturelle à faire quelque chose.
- 2Compétence à recevoir un legs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aptitude appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le grand jeune homme dégingandé, qui s’appelait Laurier, s’était apparemment institué chef en raison de sa position sociale et de ses aptitudes naturelles.
Le canard de Rouen est des plus recommandables par sa taille, sa rusticité, sa précocité et son aptitude à l'engraissement. Il est aussi le plus répandu.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apittude
- apptitude
- aptitdue
- aptittude
- aptitudde
- aptitued
- aptiutde
- apttitude
- apttiude
- atpitude
- patitude
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aptitude - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).