audit

\o.di\

/\o.di\/ det

The verdict

“audit” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,196. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#8,196
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
19
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - À ce qui a été dit à ce dont on parle.

Corpus desk

Index FR-audit · audit · French

audit · rank #8,196 · 6 variants · 19 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,196
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH attendons

Nearest frequency peer: attendons (-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 « audit »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « audit » 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).

audit vs aut
60% similar
audit vs avait
60% similar
audit vs avoit
60% similar

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

Key facts for audit
PropertyValue
Headwordaudit
LanguageFrench
Part of speechDeterminer
IPA\o.di\
Letters5
Frequency rank#8,196
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs19
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « audit »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).auditse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « attendons » (#8,195), « austérité » (#8,197), « atteintes » (#8,194). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « audit » est au #8,196. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around audit (IPA \o.di\), adeterminer. Corpus frequency is #8,196 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "À ce qui a été dit à ce dont on parle.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for audit, with forms such as "aduit", "auddit", and "auditt". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "aut", "avait", "avoit", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

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 audit, spelled A-U-D-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    À ce qui a été dit à ce dont on parle.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le mercredi 24 juillet courant, vers 8 h. du soir, un meurtre a été commis à Mainbressy. Adéon Ducat, cultivateur audit lieu, a tiré un coup de fusil sur la veuve Thiébault-Poncelet, sa belle-mère. La mort a été instantanée.
  2. Et ledit seigneur de Voltaire veut bien constituer en dot à ladite demoiselle Corneille la somme de 20.000 livres, que ledit seigneur de Voltaire promet et s’oblige être payée après son décès à ladite demoiselle épouse, soit pour elle audit sieur époux ou aux leurs, sans intérêt toutefois jusques audit terme de paiement.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aduit
  • auddit
  • auditt
  • audti
  • auidt
  • uadit

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of audit - 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.

aduit2auddit1auditt1audti2auidt2uadit2
Edit distance from "audit"

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 "audit"?
"audit" is spelled A-U-D-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \o.di\.
What does "audit" mean?
As a determiner, "audit" means: À ce qui a été dit à ce dont on parle.
What words are commonly confused with "audit"?
"audit" is commonly confused with "aut", "avait", "avoit". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "audit"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "audit" is \o.di\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "audit" come from?
"audit" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

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 (6 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list