autiste
\o.tist\
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
- assembler
assembler
82,123 corpus weight
- assimilés
assimilés
82,122 corpus weight
- attaquants
attaquants
82,121 corpus weight
- autiste
autiste
82,120 corpus weight
- avertit
avertit
82,119 corpus weight
- bailey
bailey
82,118 corpus weight
What this shows « autiste » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | autiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \o.tist\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,881 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « autiste »
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
- 1Qualifie une personne présentant des caractéristiques relevant de l'autisme.
- 2Qualifie une personne physique ou morale qui ne perçoit pas les sentiments ou les intentions d’autrui.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how autiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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.
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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).