construit

\kɔ̃s.tʁɥi\

/\kɔ̃s.tʁɥi\/ noun

The verdict

“construit” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,311. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,311
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Résultat d'une construction, par opposition à un phénomène naturel ou éternel.

Corpus desk

Index FR-construit · construit · French

construit · rank #2,311 · 14 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,311
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH chances

Nearest frequency peer: chances (-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 « construit »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « construit » 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).

construit vs construite
90% similar
construit vs construits
90% similar
construit vs construites
82% similar

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

Key facts for construit
PropertyValue
Headwordconstruit
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃s.tʁɥi\
Letters9
Frequency rank#2,311
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « construit »

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « chances » (#2,310), « bain » (#2,309), « dents » (#2,313). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « construit » est au #2,311. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around construit (IPA \kɔ̃s.tʁɥi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,311 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Résultat d'une construction, par opposition à un phénomène naturel ou éternel.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for construit, with forms such as "cconstruit", "cnostruit", and "connstruit". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "construite", "construits", "construites", and more, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is construit, spelled C-O-N-S-T-R-U-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Résultat d'une construction, par opposition à un phénomène naturel ou éternel.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. En terminant, notons que, malgré notre parti pris postpositiviste, nous ne nions pas que le monde social soit un construit (ou plutôt un assemblage de construits). Les institutions, les lois, les systèmes politiques et économiques, les règles de bienséance, les langues, l'identification à un parti et bien d'autres choses encore ne poussent pas dans les ar…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cconstruit
  • cnostruit
  • connstruit
  • consrtuit
  • consstruit
  • constriut
  • constrruit
  • construitt
  • construti
  • consttruit
  • consturit
  • contsruit
  • cosntruit
  • ocnstruit

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of construit - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

cconstruit1cnostruit2connstruit1consrtuit2consstruit1constriut2constrruit1construitt1
Edit distance from "construit"

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 "construit"?
"construit" is spelled C-O-N-S-T-R-U-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃s.tʁɥi\.
What does "construit" mean?
As a noun, "construit" means: Résultat d'une construction, par opposition à un phénomène naturel ou éternel.
What words are commonly confused with "construit"?
"construit" is commonly confused with "construite", "construits", "construites". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "construit"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "construit" is \kɔ̃s.tʁɥi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "construit" come from?
"construit" 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 "construit", 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list