curiosité
The verdict
“curiosité” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #4,660 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #4,660
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Passion, désir, empressement de voir, d’apprendre des choses nouvelles, intéressantes, rares, etc.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | curiosité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky.ʁjɔ.zi.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,660 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “curiosité” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for curiosité is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ky.ʁjɔ.zi.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,660 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for curiosité, with forms such as "ccuriosité", "cruiosité", and "cuirosité". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "curiosités", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is curiosité, spelled C-U-R-I-O-S-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Passion, désir, empressement de voir, d’apprendre des choses nouvelles, intéressantes, rares, etc.
- 2Grande envie, trop grand empressement de savoir les secrets, les affaires d’autrui.
- 3Goût qui porte à rechercher les objets curieux, rares, nouveaux, etc.
- 4Chose rare ou curieuse.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccuriosité,cruiosité,cuirosité,curioisté,curiosite,curiositté,curiosiét,curiossité,curiostié,curisoité,curoisité,curriosité,ucriosité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of curiosité — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "curiosité"
Frequency rank: #4,660 in French
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Using “curiosité”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-U-R-I-O-S-I-T-É — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ky.ʁjɔ.zi.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “curiosités” — see the side-by-side comparison. curiosité vs curiosités
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Nearby French words
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