auditif

\o.di.tif\

/\o.di.tif\/ adj

The verdict

“auditif” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,233. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#29,233
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à l’audition ou à l’ouïe.

Corpus desk

Index FR-auditif · auditif · French

auditif · rank #29,233 · 9 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #29,233
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH attester

Nearest frequency peer: attester (-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 « auditif »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « auditif » 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).

auditif vs audits
71% similar
auditif vs audition
75% similar
auditif vs auditive
75% similar

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

Key facts for auditif
PropertyValue
Headwordauditif
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\o.di.tif\
Letters7
Frequency rank#29,233
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « auditif »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).auditifse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « attester » (#29,232), « auger » (#29,234), « astucieux » (#29,231). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « auditif » est au #29,233. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around auditif (IPA \o.di.tif\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #29,233 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Relatif à l’audition ou à l’ouïe.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for auditif, with forms such as "aduitif", "audditif", and "audiitf". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "audits", "audition", "auditive", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is auditif, spelled A-U-D-I-T-I-F.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relatif à l’audition ou à l’ouïe.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Cette différence entre la sensibilité auditive chez les deux batraciens tient, suivant les auteurs, à ce que, pour le crapaud, animal terrestre, le bruit a plus d’importance que pour la grenouille, animal aquatique.
  2. Il a été prouvé que la privation de sommeil entraîne une baisse de la résistance aux distractibilités visuelle et auditive (Harrison et Horne, 2000b).

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aduitif
  • audditif
  • audiitf
  • auditfi
  • auditiff
  • audittif
  • audtiif
  • auidtif
  • uaditif

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

aduitif2audditif1audiitf2auditfi2auditiff1audittif1audtiif2auidtif2
Edit distance from "auditif"

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 "auditif"?
"auditif" is spelled A-U-D-I-T-I-F. The IPA pronunciation is \o.di.tif\.
What does "auditif" mean?
As an adjective, "auditif" means: Relatif à l’audition ou à l’ouïe.
What words are commonly confused with "auditif"?
"auditif" is commonly confused with "audits", "audition", "auditive". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "auditif"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "auditif" is \o.di.tif\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "auditif" come from?
"auditif" 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 "auditif", not the corpus desk frequency band.

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 (9 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list