autisme

\o.tism\

/\o.tism\/ noun

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The verdict

“autisme” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,996. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,996
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Trouble, particularité neurologique caractérisée par des difficultés de communication, ainsi que des comportements à caractère restreint et répétitif.

Corpus desk

Index FR-autisme · autisme · French

autisme · rank #10,996 · 9 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,996
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH attrape

Nearest frequency peer: attrape (-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 « autisme »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « autisme » 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).

autisme vs autiste
86% similar
autisme vs autistes
75% similar
autisme vs attise
71% similar

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

Key facts for autisme
PropertyValue
Headwordautisme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\o.tism\
Letters7
Frequency rank#10,996
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « autisme »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).autismese 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 « attrape » (#10,995), « autopsie » (#10,997), « assistants » (#10,994). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « autisme » est au #10,996. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around autisme (IPA \o.tism\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,996 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for autisme, with forms such as "atuisme", "auitsme", and "autimse". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "autiste", "autistes", "attise", 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is autisme, spelled A-U-T-I-S-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Trouble, particularité neurologique caractérisée par des difficultés de communication, ainsi que des comportements à caractère restreint et répétitif.
  2. 2
    Autisme avec déficience intellectuelle et/ou retard du langage. C’est souvent ce sens qui est utilisé par le grand public ; il correspond à ce que l’on appelait avant « l’autisme de Kanner » ou « autisme infantile » (termes désuets), mais n’est qu’un des aspects du spectre de l’autisme.
  3. 3
    Tout comportement de repli sur soi.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. D’où son ambition d’expliquer l’autisme, d’abord à son environnement proche, puis aux recruteurs et à la société tout entière.
  2. Le soutien et la compréhension de la famille ne sont pas toujours au rendez-vous, au risque de développer de la culpabilité chez les personnes atteintes des troubles du spectre de l’autisme.

This word in other languages

autism(English)autismo(Español)Autismus(Deutsch)autismo(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • atuisme
  • auitsme
  • autimse
  • autisem
  • autismme
  • autissme
  • autsime
  • auttisme
  • uatisme

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

atuisme2auitsme2autimse2autisem2autismme1autissme1autsime2auttisme1
Edit distance from "autisme"

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 "autisme"?
"autisme" is spelled A-U-T-I-S-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \o.tism\.
What does "autisme" mean?
As a noun, "autisme" means: Trouble, particularité neurologique caractérisée par des difficultés de communication, ainsi que des comportements à caractère restreint et répétitif.
What words are commonly confused with "autisme"?
"autisme" is commonly confused with "autiste", "autistes", "attise". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "autisme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "autisme" is \o.tism\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "autisme" come from?
"autisme" 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 "autisme", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

attrape#10,995avances#10,998brutale#11,004amicale#10,987

Similar misspelling depth

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

Armand9 variantsBruges9 variantsaccession9 variantscapter9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list