authenticité

\ɔ.tɑ̃.ti.si.te\

/\ɔ.tɑ̃.ti.si.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“authenticité” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,637. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,637
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
18
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité de ce qui est authentique.

Corpus desk

Index FR-authenticite · authenticité · French

authenticité · rank #10,637 · 18 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,637
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 18 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH augmentée

Nearest frequency peer: augmentée (-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 « authenticité »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « authenticité » 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
Key facts for authenticité
PropertyValue
Headwordauthenticité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔ.tɑ̃.ti.si.te\
Letters12
Frequency rank#10,637
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « authenticité »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).authenticitése 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 « augmentée » (#10,636), « automatiques » (#10,638), « augmentant » (#10,635). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « authenticité » est au #10,637. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 18 spelling variants around authenticité (IPA \ɔ.tɑ̃.ti.si.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,637 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for authenticité, with forms such as "atuhenticité", "auhtenticité", and "autehnticité". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 authenticité, spelled A-U-T-H-E-N-T-I-C-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qualité de ce qui est authentique.
  2. 2
    Pureté.
  3. 3
    Vérité absolue et indiscutable.
  4. 4
    Caractère de ce qui est identique à soi.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Une conclusion est certaine : les universités protègent mal leurs archives. […]. Voila en tout cas un bon motif de réforme de l’université : garantir l’authenticité des diplômes.
  2. Bientôt, il entreprit de vastes recherches visant à établir l’authenticité du manuscrit, l’identité de son ou ses auteurs, ainsi que le destin ultérieur de ces lignes manifestement écrites pour être lues à la barre du tribunal.

This word in other languages

authenticity(English)autenticidad(Español)Authentizität(Deutsch)autenticidade(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • atuhenticité
  • auhtenticité
  • autehnticité
  • authenitcité
  • authennticité
  • authentciité
  • authenticcité
  • authenticite
  • authenticitté
  • authenticiét
  • authentictié
  • authentiicté
  • authentticité
  • authetnicité
  • authhenticité
  • authneticité
  • autthenticité
  • uathenticité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

atuhenticité2auhtenticité2autehnticité2authenitcité2authennticité1authentciité2authenticcité1authenticite1
Edit distance from "authenticité"

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 "authenticité"?
"authenticité" is spelled A-U-T-H-E-N-T-I-C-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔ.tɑ̃.ti.si.te\.
What does "authenticité" mean?
As a noun, "authenticité" means: Qualité de ce qui est authentique.
What are common misspellings of "authenticité"?
Common misspellings include "atuhenticité", "auhtenticité", "autehnticité", "authenitcité", "authennticité". The correct spelling is "authenticité".
How do you pronounce "authenticité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "authenticité" is \ɔ.tɑ̃.ti.si.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "authenticité" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

automatiques#10,638catholicisme#10,653concertation#10,668célibataires#10,683

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).

attentivement18 variantsextrémistes18 variantspériphérique18 variantsradicalement18 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list