atteste
\a.tɛst\
The verdict
“atteste” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,806. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,806
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe attester.
Corpus desk
Index FR-atteste · atteste · French
atteste · rank #15,806 · 8 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,806
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ars
Nearest frequency peer: ars (-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 « atteste »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Antibes
Antibes
84,199 corpus weight
- ars
ars
84,196 corpus weight
- atteste
atteste
84,195 corpus weight
- automatisat…
automatisation
84,194 corpus weight
- auxiliaires
auxiliaires
84,193 corpus weight
- balai
balai
84,192 corpus weight
What this shows « atteste » 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 | atteste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.tɛst\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,806 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « atteste »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around atteste (IPA \a.tɛst\), averb. Corpus frequency is #15,806 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for atteste, with forms such as "ateste", "atetste", and "atteset". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "attise", "autiste", "attestée", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 atteste, spelled A-T-T-E-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe attester.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe attester.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe attester.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe attester.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe attester.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how atteste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si l’essor du phénomène associatif (loto des pompiers, des musiciens à la Sainte-Cécile, du club du troisième âge, des parents d’élèves, des anciens combattants, des boulistes, de la paroisse, des chasseurs…) atteste de mutations sociales et favorise des ambiances particulières, il montre aussi la permanence des besoins de la communauté.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ateste
- atetste
- atteset
- attesste
- attestte
- attetse
- attsete
- tateste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of atteste - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).