attitude

\a.ti.tyd\

/\a.ti.tyd\/ noun

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The verdict

“attitude” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,556. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,556
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Situation, position du corps.

Corpus desk

Index FR-attitude · attitude · French

attitude · rank #2,556 · 9 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,556
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH Antoine

Nearest frequency peer: Antoine (-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 « attitude »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « attitude » 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

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

attitude vs attitudes
89% similar
attitude vs attique
75% similar
attitude vs attitré
63% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for attitude
PropertyValue
Headwordattitude
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ti.tyd\
Letters8
Frequency rank#2,556
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « attitude »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).attitudese 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 « Antoine » (#2,555), « balles » (#2,557), « étrange » (#2,554). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « attitude » est au #2,556. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around attitude (IPA \a.ti.tyd\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,556 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for attitude, with forms such as "atittude", "atitude", and "attitdue". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "attitudes", "attique", "attitré", 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 attitude, spelled A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Situation, position du corps.
  2. 2
    Apparence que l’on se donne, sentiments que l’on affecte.
  3. 3
    Situation dans laquelle on se trouve, on se maintient à l’égard de quelqu’un, des résolutions, des dispositions où l’on paraît être.
  4. 4
    Orientation.
  5. 5
    Évaluation positive ou négative, durable, qu’un individu entretient envers un objet, une personne, un groupe, une idée ou une situation. Elle peut inclure une dimension cognitive (croyances), affective (émotions) et comportementale (prédispositions à agir).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Belle, noble attitude.
  2. L’attitude d’une statue.

This word in other languages

attitude(English)actitud(Español)Einstellung(Deutsch)atitude(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • atittude
  • atitude
  • attitdue
  • attittude
  • attitudde
  • attitued
  • attiutde
  • atttiude
  • tatitude

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

atittude2atitude1attitdue2attittude1attitudde1attitued2attiutde2atttiude2
Edit distance from "attitude"

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 "attitude"?
"attitude" is spelled A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ti.tyd\.
What does "attitude" mean?
As a noun, "attitude" means: Situation, position du corps.
What words are commonly confused with "attitude"?
"attitude" is commonly confused with "attitudes", "attique", "attitré". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "attitude"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "attitude" is \a.ti.tyd\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "attitude" come from?
"attitude" 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 "attitude", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

batterie#2,558contente#2,565Emmanuel#2,573portrait#2,538

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

Antoine9 variantsventes9 variantstournoi9 variantscourses9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list