autoritaire
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,714
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
autoritaire is anFrenchadj. It means: Associé à une personne qui use ou montre de l’autorité. Pronounced \o.tɔ.ʁi.tɛʁ\. Often confused with autoritaires.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | autoritaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \o.tɔ.ʁi.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #11,714 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for autoritaire is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o.tɔ.ʁi.tɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,714 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for autoritaire, with forms such as "atuoritaire", "auotritaire", and "autoirtaire". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "autoritaires", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is autoritaire, spelled A-U-T-O-R-I-T-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Associé à une personne qui use ou montre de l’autorité.
- 2Associé à une personne qui est partisane de l’autorité comme valeur prédominante d’un régime, d’un système, d’une institution.
- 3Associé à un concept, une idée, une chose qui manifestent de l’autorité.
- 4Associé à une personne qui a une personnalité qui souhaite prendre l’ascendant sur les autres, leur imposer sa volonté.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atuoritaire,auotritaire,autoirtaire,autoriatire,autoritaier,autoritairre,autoritarie,autoritiare,autorittaire,autorritaire,autortiaire,autroitaire,auttoritaire,uatoritaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for autoritaire
Misspelling Variants of "autoritaire"
Frequency rank: #11,714 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter A in our French index: