civilité
\si.vi.li.te\
The verdict
“civilité” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,215. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,215
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble de comportements liés à la politesse et au savoir-vivre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-civilite · civilité · French
civilité · rank #39,215 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,215
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH citait
Nearest frequency peer: citait (-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 « civilité »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- châtaignes
châtaignes
60,790 corpus weight
- circ
circ
60,788 corpus weight
- citait
citait
60,787 corpus weight
- civilité
civilité
60,786 corpus weight
- civitas
civitas
60,785 corpus weight
- classant
classant
60,782 corpus weight
What this shows « civilité » 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 | civilité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.vi.li.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #39,215 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « civilité »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around civilité (IPA \si.vi.li.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,215 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for civilité, with forms such as "ccivilité", "ciivlité", and "civiilté". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "civile", "civilisée", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is civilité, spelled C-I-V-I-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Ensemble de comportements liés à la politesse et au savoir-vivre.
- 2Manière courtoise ou polie de vivre et de converser dans le monde.
- 3Actions et paroles qui sont des témoignages de politesse.
- 4Titre de civilité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how civilité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après les salutations, où brilla dans toute son emphase la civilité provinciale, le fauteuil de la présidence fut occupé par celui des assistons que son titre semblait y appeler, […].
[…], ayant été prise d’un léger accès de toux, elle mit sa main devant sa bouche, d’après les règles les plus élémentaires de la civilité.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccivilité
- ciivlité
- civiilté
- civilite
- civilitté
- civiliét
- civillité
- civiltié
- civliité
- civvilité
- cviilité
- icvilité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of civilité - 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 "civilité", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).