collectivité
\kɔ.lɛk.ti.vi.te\
The verdict
“collectivité” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,542. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,542
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère collectif de quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-collectivite · collectivité · French
collectivité · rank #7,542 · 17 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,542
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cigarettes
Nearest frequency peer: cigarettes (-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 « collectivité »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- center
center
92,462 corpus weight
- champignons
champignons
92,461 corpus weight
- cigarettes
cigarettes
92,460 corpus weight
- collectivité
collectivité
92,459 corpus weight
- combler
combler
92,458 corpus weight
- compenser
compenser
92,457 corpus weight
What this shows « collectivité » 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 | collectivité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɛk.ti.vi.te\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #7,542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « collectivité »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around collectivité (IPA \kɔ.lɛk.ti.vi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,542 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for collectivité, with forms such as "ccollectivité", "clolectivité", and "colectivité". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "connectivité", "collectivités", "collective", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is collectivité, spelled C-O-L-L-E-C-T-I-V-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Caractère collectif de quelque chose.
- 2Dans le langage socialiste, possession en commun ; collectivisme.
- 3Communauté d’individus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how collectivité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Seule, l'Assemblée nationale, prise dans la collectivité et l’indivisibilité de ses votes, est révolutionnaire.
La collectivité, car il semble qu'il y ait dans ce mot de communisme quelque chose qui effraye si naturellement nos populations, que ceux-là qui sont communistes cherchent à se déguiser sous un autre nom ; ils se disent collectivistes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccollectivité
- clolectivité
- colectivité
- colelctivité
- collcetivité
- collecctivité
- collecitvité
- collectiivté
- collectivite
- collectivitté
- collectiviét
- collectivtié
- collectivvité
- collecttivité
- collectviité
- colletcivité
- ocllectivité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of collectivité - 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 "collectivité", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).