athée
\a.te\
The verdict
“athée” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,301. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,301
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui ne croit pas en l’existence d’une ou plusieurs divinités.
Corpus desk
Index FR-athee · athée · French
athée · rank #16,301 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,301
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH astronaute
Nearest frequency peer: astronaute (-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 « athée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ass
ass
83,703 corpus weight
- asthme
asthme
83,702 corpus weight
- astronaute
astronaute
83,701 corpus weight
- athée
athée
83,700 corpus weight
- atlantic
atlantic
83,699 corpus weight
- auditeur
auditeur
83,698 corpus weight
What this shows « athée » 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 | athée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.te\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #16,301 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « athée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around athée (IPA \a.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,301 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for athée, with forms such as "ahtée", "athee", and "atheé". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "axée", "atome", "Athos", and more, 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 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 athée, spelled A-T-H-É-E.
Definition
- 1Personne qui ne croit pas en l’existence d’une ou plusieurs divinités.
- 2Personne qui affirme sa non-croyance en quelque chose qui est énoncé sans preuve.
- 3Personne qui n’a pas de religion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how athée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aussi trouvons-nous des noms glorieux en astronomie inscrits dans le dictionnaire des athées.
Il fallait se garder d'avoir affaire à lui, disaient-ils, parce qu'il était convaincu d'appartenir à la secte des illuminati. C'était un disciple de l’athée Weisshaupt, en politique un vrai jacobin, et de plus il traînait après lui un tas d’enfants naturels.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahtée
- athee
- atheé
- athhée
- atthée
- atéhe
- tahée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of athée - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).