autorités
\ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.te\
The verdict
“autorités” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,849. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,849
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de autorité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-autorites · autorités · French
autorités · rank #1,849 · 13 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,849
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aurai
Nearest frequency peer: aurai (-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 « autorités »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- agents
agents
98,155 corpus weight
- aimer
aimer
98,154 corpus weight
- aurai
aurai
98,153 corpus weight
- autorités
autorités
98,152 corpus weight
- Bernard
Bernard
98,151 corpus weight
- biens
biens
98,150 corpus weight
What this shows « autorités » 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 | autorités |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,849 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « autorités »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around autorités (IPA \ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,849 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de autorité.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for autorités, with forms such as "atuorités", "auotrités", and "autoirtés". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "autoroutes", "autorité", "autorisé", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 autorités, spelled A-U-T-O-R-I-T-É-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de autorité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how autorités appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les tables de ce banquet étaient dressées au milieu de la grande place, sous des tentes, tandis que, dans la salle principale de la nouvelle mairie, une autre était servie pour les autorités.
Il faut toujours essayer de « subsidiariser », c’est-à-dire de donner les compétences au plus près des besoins afin que les décisions appartiennent à des autorités locales qui connaissent les questions et non à des autorités qui n’ont fait que lire un rapport.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atuorités
- auotrités
- autoirtés
- autorites
- autoritsé
- autorittés
- autoritéss
- autoriéts
- autorrités
- autortiés
- autroités
- auttorités
- uatorités
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of autorités - 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 "autorités", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).