autorité
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,506
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
autorité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pouvoir ou droit de commander, d’obliger quelqu’un à quelque chose. Pronounced \o.tɔ.ʁi.te\. It ranks #1,506 in French word frequency. Often confused with autrice and autorités.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | autorité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.tɔ.ʁi.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,506 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for autorité is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o.tɔ.ʁi.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,506 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for autorité, with forms such as "atuorité", "auotrité", and "autoirté". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "autrice", "autorités", "autoroute", and more, 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 autorité, spelled A-U-T-O-R-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pouvoir ou droit de commander, d’obliger quelqu’un à quelque chose.
- 2Administration, gouvernement considéré principalement dans ses rapports avec les citoyens.
- 3Crédit, considération, influence sur les personnes et sur les choses.
- 4Capacité d’expliquer et de convaincre.
- 5Écrit ou personnage important qui fait référence, dont on rapporte les dires pour appuyer une position.
- 6Les magistrats, les hauts fonctionnaires chargés d’une partie quelconque de l’administration publique.
- 7(Sciences de l’information) Identification non-ambiguë d'une personne ou d'un concept, permettant d’en faciliter la recherche dans les bases de données.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atuorité,auotrité,autoirté,autorite,autoritté,autoriét,autorrité,autortié,autroité,auttorité,uatorité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for autorité
Misspelling Variants of "autorité"
Frequency rank: #1,506 in French
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Nearby French words
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