autiste

\o.tist\

/\o.tist\/ adj

The verdict

“autiste” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,881. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#17,881
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie une personne présentant des caractéristiques relevant de l'autisme.

Corpus desk

Index FR-autiste · autiste · French

autiste · rank #17,881 · 9 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #17,881
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH attaquants

Nearest frequency peer: attaquants (-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 « autiste »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « autiste » 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).

autiste vs autistes
88% similar
autiste vs artist
71% similar
autiste vs attise
71% similar

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

Key facts for autiste
PropertyValue
Headwordautiste
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\o.tist\
Letters7
Frequency rank#17,881
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « autiste »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.autistese 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 « attaquants » (#17,880), « avertit » (#17,882), « assimilés » (#17,879). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « autiste » est au #17,881. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around autiste (IPA \o.tist\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,881 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for autiste, with forms such as "atuiste", "auitste", and "autiset". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "autistes", "artist", "attise", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is autiste, spelled A-U-T-I-S-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qualifie une personne présentant des caractéristiques relevant de l'autisme.
  2. 2
    Qualifie une personne physique ou morale qui ne perçoit pas les sentiments ou les intentions d’autrui.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Si nous savons que les fonctions cognitives de l’enfant autiste sont gravement perturbées et qu’il ne différencie guère l’animé de l’inanimé, il n’en est pas de même pour le faux self.
  2. Quand l'activité langagière de l'enfant autiste s'est bien développée vont coexister des capacités combinatoires nuancées et la tendance à utiliser des morceaux de discours écholaliques.

Antonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • atuiste
  • auitste
  • autiset
  • autisste
  • autistte
  • autitse
  • autsite
  • auttiste
  • uatiste

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

atuiste2auitste2autiset2autisste1autistte1autitse2autsite2auttiste1
Edit distance from "autiste"

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 "autiste"?
"autiste" is spelled A-U-T-I-S-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \o.tist\.
What does "autiste" mean?
As an adjective, "autiste" means: Qualifie une personne présentant des caractéristiques relevant de l'autisme.
What words are commonly confused with "autiste"?
"autiste" is commonly confused with "autistes", "artist", "attise". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "autiste"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "autiste" is \o.tist\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "autiste" come from?
"autiste" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "autiste", 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