automobiliste

\ɔ.tɔ.mɔ.bi.list\

/\ɔ.tɔ.mɔ.bi.list\/ noun

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The verdict

“automobiliste” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,126. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,126
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
18
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui, celle qui conduit une automobile.

Corpus desk

Index FR-automobiliste · automobiliste · French

automobiliste · rank #18,126 · 18 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #18,126
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-7 7 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 18 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH autobiographie

Nearest frequency peer: autobiographie (-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 « automobiliste »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « automobiliste » 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).

automobiliste vs automobilistes
93% similar

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

Key facts for automobiliste
PropertyValue
Headwordautomobiliste
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔ.tɔ.mɔ.bi.list\
Letters13
Frequency rank#18,126
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « automobiliste »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).automobilistese 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 « autobiographie » (#18,125), « avoirs » (#18,127), « autistes » (#18,124). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « automobiliste » est au #18,126. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 18 spelling variants around automobiliste (IPA \ɔ.tɔ.mɔ.bi.list\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,126 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Celui, celle qui conduit une automobile.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for automobiliste, with forms such as "atuomobiliste", "auotmobiliste", and "autmoobiliste". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "automobilistes", 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 automobiliste, spelled A-U-T-O-M-O-B-I-L-I-S-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celui, celle qui conduit une automobile.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. De là est née l’idée de recourir à l’auto-stop, mais cela d'une manière organisée donnant un maximum de satisfaction et de garantie aussi bien à l’automobiliste qu'à l’auto-stoppeur. Ainsi fut créée par l'initiative privée dans le courant du mois de mai 1978, une association sans but lucratif, dénommée "Taxistop".
  2. En fait lorsque la R5 Turbo aborde l'entrée du tunnel, elle ne ralentit que très légèrement et la traversée de Lyon s'effectue sans problème. A la sortie des autostoppeurs font des signes désespérés aux automobilistes indifférents.

This word in other languages

driver(English)Autofahrer(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • atuomobiliste
  • auotmobiliste
  • autmoobiliste
  • automboiliste
  • autommobiliste
  • automobbiliste
  • automobiilste
  • automobiliset
  • automobilisste
  • automobilistte
  • automobilitse
  • automobilliste
  • automobilsite
  • automobliiste
  • automoibliste
  • autoombiliste
  • auttomobiliste
  • uatomobiliste

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

atuomobiliste2auotmobiliste2autmoobiliste2automboiliste2autommobiliste1automobbiliste1automobiilste2automobiliset2
Edit distance from "automobiliste"

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 "automobiliste"?
"automobiliste" is spelled A-U-T-O-M-O-B-I-L-I-S-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔ.tɔ.mɔ.bi.list\.
What does "automobiliste" mean?
As a noun, "automobiliste" means: Celui, celle qui conduit une automobile.
What words are commonly confused with "automobiliste"?
"automobiliste" is commonly confused with "automobilistes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "automobiliste"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "automobiliste" is \ɔ.tɔ.mɔ.bi.list\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "automobiliste" come from?
"automobiliste" 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 "automobiliste", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

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

prédictions18 variantsperformants18 variantsmasturbation18 variantsinconsciente18 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list