clandestinité

\klɑ̃.dɛs.ti.ni.te\

/\klɑ̃.dɛs.ti.ni.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“clandestinité” has 21 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,373. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#27,373
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
21
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Le vice d’une chose faite en secret et contre la loi.

Corpus desk

Index FR-clandestinite · clandestinité · French

clandestinité · rank #27,373 · 21 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #27,373
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 21 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH citrouille

Nearest frequency peer: citrouille (-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 « clandestinité »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « clandestinité » 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).

clandestinité vs clandestine
77% similar

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

Key facts for clandestinité
PropertyValue
Headwordclandestinité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\klɑ̃.dɛs.ti.ni.te\
Letters13
Frequency rank#27,373
Misspellings tracked21
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « clandestinité »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.clandestinitése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « citrouille » (#27,372), « coiffée » (#27,374), « citernes » (#27,371). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « clandestinité » est au #27,373. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 21 spelling variants around clandestinité (IPA \klɑ̃.dɛs.ti.ni.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,373 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 21 likely wrong-spelling variants for clandestinité, with forms such as "calndestinité", "cclandestinité", and "cladnestinité". 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, "clandestine", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is clandestinité, spelled C-L-A-N-D-E-S-T-I-N-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Le vice d’une chose faite en secret et contre la loi.
  2. 2
    Vie clandestine.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. De plus, on assimile volontiers les femmes adultères aux prostituées et la pratique de la fornication, prostibulaire ou adultère, suppose le mensonge ou la clandestinité, comme l'ont si bien illustré les fabliaux, qui insistent sur les mensonges de l'épouse volage.
  2. Je suis passé dans la clandestinité pour ne pas être arrêté, car je savais que je faisais l'objet d'une mesure d'internement.

This word in other languages

clandestinidade(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • calndestinité
  • cclandestinité
  • cladnestinité
  • clanddestinité
  • clandesitnité
  • clandesstinité
  • clandestiinté
  • clandestinite
  • clandestinitté
  • clandestiniét
  • clandestinnité
  • clandestintié
  • clandestniité
  • clandesttinité
  • clandetsinité
  • clandsetinité
  • clanedstinité
  • clanndestinité
  • cllandestinité
  • clnadestinité
  • lcandestinité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

calndestinité2cclandestinité1cladnestinité2clanddestinité1clandesitnité2clandesstinité1clandestiinté2clandestinite1
Edit distance from "clandestinité"

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 "clandestinité"?
"clandestinité" is spelled C-L-A-N-D-E-S-T-I-N-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \klɑ̃.dɛs.ti.ni.te\.
What does "clandestinité" mean?
As a noun, "clandestinité" means: Le vice d’une chose faite en secret et contre la loi.
What words are commonly confused with "clandestinité"?
"clandestinité" is commonly confused with "clandestine". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "clandestinité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "clandestinité" is \klɑ̃.dɛs.ti.ni.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "clandestinité" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "clandestinité", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

astrologiques#27,324visualisation#27,289impressionnée#27,477imprévisibles#27,478

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (21 here; floor ≥5).

prépondérante21 variantsjustifications21 variantsvestimentaires21 variantsévangélisation21 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list