complémentarité

Name: complémentarité, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\kɔ̃.ple.mɑ̃.ta.ʁi.te\

/\kɔ̃.ple.mɑ̃.ta.ʁi.te\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“complémentarité” has 24 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,890. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#21,890
frequency rank, French: 8,609
“C” headwords: 24
tracked misspellings: 1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de ce qui est complémentaire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-complementarite · complémentarité · French

complémentarité · rank #21,890 · 24 variants · 1 confusable

FREQ-MID #21,890
LEN-MEGA 15 letters
VOW-6 6 vowels
CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
VAR-HIGH 24 variants
BOOK-DENSE 8,609
PHOTO-FINISH complots

Nearest frequency peer: complots (-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.

commettent

78,114
complete

78,113
complots

78,112
complémenta…

78,111
compromise

78,110
conforter

78,109

What this shows « complémentarité » 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).

complémentarité vs complémentaire

80% similar

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

Key facts for complémentarité
Property	Value
Headword	complémentarité
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\kɔ̃.ple.mɑ̃.ta.ʁi.te\
Letters	15
Frequency rank	#21,890
Misspellings tracked	24
Confusable pairs	1
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « complémentarité »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).complémentaritése place ici:

#21,890

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « complots » (#21,889), « compromise » (#21,891), « complete » (#21,888). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « complémentarité » est au #21,890. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 24 spelling variants around complémentarité (IPA \kɔ̃.ple.mɑ̃.ta.ʁi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,890 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 24 likely wrong-spelling variants for complémentarité, with forms such as "ccomplémentarité", "cmoplémentarité", and "comlpémentarité". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "complémentaire", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is complémentarité, spelled C-O-M-P-L-É-M-E-N-T-A-R-I-T-É.

Definition

1
Caractère de ce qui est complémentaire.
2
Coexistence des interprétations corpusculaire et ondulatoire de la matière.
3
S’emploie dans d’autres domaines où le même objet apparaît sous des aspects différents selon la méthode utilisée pour son étude.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

Le demi de mêlée, en complémentarité avec le demi d’ouverture, sert de charnière entre les avants et les arrières.
De surcroît, les pertes en ligne sont fortement réduites par l’utilisation du courant triphasé, qui tire parti des complémentarités entre les cycles des différentes phases.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

ccomplémentarité
cmoplémentarité
comlpémentarité
commplémentarité
complementarite
compllémentarité
complméentarité
compléemntarité
complémenatrité
complémenntarité
complémentairté
complémentaritté
complémentariét
complémentarrité
complémentartié
complémentraité
complémenttarité
complémetnarité
complémmentarité
complémnetarité
compplémentarité
compélmentarité
copmlémentarité
ocmplémentarité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

Edit distance from "complémentarité"

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 "complémentarité"?

"complémentarité" is spelled C-O-M-P-L-É-M-E-N-T-A-R-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.ple.mɑ̃.ta.ʁi.te\.

What does "complémentarité" mean?

As a noun, "complémentarité" means: Caractère de ce qui est complémentaire.

What words are commonly confused with "complémentarité"?

"complémentarité" is commonly confused with "complémentaire". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "complémentarité"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "complémentarité" is \kɔ̃.ple.mɑ̃.ta.ʁi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "complémentarité" come from?

"complémentarité" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 15 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (24 here; floor ≥5).

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