continuité

\kɔ̃.ti.nɥi.te\

/\kɔ̃.ti.nɥi.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“continuité” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,961. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,961
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Liaison non interrompue des parties d’un tout.

Corpus desk

Index FR-continuite · continuité · French

continuité · rank #5,961 · 15 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,961
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH construite

Nearest frequency peer: construite (-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 « continuité »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « continuité » 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).

continuité vs continue
70% similar
continuité vs continuait
80% similar

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

Key facts for continuité
PropertyValue
Headwordcontinuité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃.ti.nɥi.te\
Letters10
Frequency rank#5,961
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « continuité »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.continuitése 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 « construite » (#5,960), « croisé » (#5,962), « confirmation » (#5,959). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « continuité » est au #5,961. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around continuité (IPA \kɔ̃.ti.nɥi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,961 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for continuité, with forms such as "ccontinuité", "cnotinuité", and "conitnuité". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "continue", "continuait", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is continuité, spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-U-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Liaison non interrompue des parties d’un tout.
  2. 2
    Durée continue.
  3. 3
    Propriété topologique d’une fonction.
  4. 4
    Capacité physique (ou type d’effort) s’apparentant à de l’endurance.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La glande génitale est située dans le cœlome, et sans continuité avec les conduits génitaux ; une partie de la couronne pédieuse péribuccale est hectocotylisée, c'est-à-dire modifiée en organe d'accouplement, chez le mâle.
  2. Ah ! Littérature ! Quels tourments, quelles tortures ton sacro-saint amour de la continuité ne nous impose-t-il pas !

Synonyms

ténacitépersévérancesuitepersistancecontinuum

Antonyms

discontinuitéincontinuitéinterruptionrupturefracturationdiscrétion

This word in other languages

continuity(English)continuidad(Español)continuidade(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccontinuité
  • cnotinuité
  • conitnuité
  • conntinuité
  • continiuté
  • continnuité
  • continuite
  • continuitté
  • continuiét
  • continutié
  • contiunité
  • contniuité
  • conttinuité
  • cotninuité
  • ocntinuité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of continuité - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ccontinuité1cnotinuité2conitnuité2conntinuité1continiuté2continnuité1continuite1continuitté1
Edit distance from "continuité"

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 "continuité"?
"continuité" is spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-U-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.ti.nɥi.te\.
What does "continuité" mean?
As a noun, "continuité" means: Liaison non interrompue des parties d’un tout.
What words are commonly confused with "continuité"?
"continuité" is commonly confused with "continue", "continuait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "continuité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "continuité" is \kɔ̃.ti.nɥi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "continuité" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

construite#5,960circulaire#5,958certificat#5,956interroger#5,992

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

accompagnée15 variantsproduisent15 variantspermettrait15 variantsparticules15 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list