dignité

\di.ɲi.te\

/\di.ɲi.te\/ noun

By · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) ·

The verdict

“dignité” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,932. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,932
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gravité noble qui inspire la considération, commande le respect, les égards.

Corpus desk

Index FR-dignite · dignité · French

dignité · rank #4,932 · 11 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,932
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH courts

Nearest frequency peer: courts (-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 « dignité »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « dignité » 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).

dignité vs divinité
75% similar
dignité vs digne
57% similar
dignité vs digeste
57% similar

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

Key facts for dignité
PropertyValue
Headworddignité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\di.ɲi.te\
Letters7
Frequency rank#4,932
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dignité »

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

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « courts » (#4,931), « diminution » (#4,933), « copains » (#4,930). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « dignité » est au #4,932. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around dignité (IPA \di.ɲi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,932 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for dignité, with forms such as "ddignité", "dginité", and "diggnité". 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, "divinité", "digne", "digeste", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dignité, spelled D-I-G-N-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Gravité noble qui inspire la considération, commande le respect, les égards.
  2. 2
    Fait que la personne humaine ne doive jamais être traitée seulement comme un moyen, mais toujours aussi comme une fin en soi.
  3. 3
    Poste, grade éminent, charge ou office considérable.
  4. 4
    Fait qu'une planète soit valorisée par le lieu où elle est située dans un thème astral.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Elle retira son voile et laissa voir un visage où la dignité le disputait à la timide modestie.
  2. En revanche, la plus stupide de leurs tristes conceptions, l'esprit de dignité, est venu remplacer parmi nous la gaieté française.

Synonyms

dignitude

This word in other languages

dignity(English)dignidad(Español)Würde(Deutsch)brio(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddignité
  • dginité
  • diggnité
  • diginté
  • dignite
  • dignitté
  • digniét
  • dignnité
  • digntié
  • dingité
  • idgnité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

ddignité1dginité2diggnité1diginté2dignite1dignitté1digniét2dignnité1
Edit distance from "dignité"

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 "dignité"?
"dignité" is spelled D-I-G-N-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \di.ɲi.te\.
What does "dignité" mean?
As a noun, "dignité" means: Gravité noble qui inspire la considération, commande le respect, les égards.
What words are commonly confused with "dignité"?
"dignité" is commonly confused with "divinité", "digne", "digeste". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "dignité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dignité" is \di.ɲi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dignité" come from?
"dignité" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

copains#4,930désigne#4,935figures#4,940germain#4,945

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

brillant11 variantsvivants11 variantssexuelles11 variantsréparer11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list