égalité
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,982
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
égalité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Qualité de ce qui est égal. Pronounced \e.ɡa.li.te\. It ranks #1,982 in French word frequency. Often confused with élite and église.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | égalité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ɡa.li.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,982 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for égalité is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ɡa.li.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,982 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for égalité, with forms such as "egalite", "géalité", and "éaglité". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "élite", "église", "égale", and more, 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 égalité, spelled É-G-A-L-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qualité de ce qui est égal.
- 2Uniformité ; constance.
- 3Caractéristique d’une surface plane et unie, sans aspérités.
- 4Fait d’être à quarante contre quarante pour deux joueurs ou deux équipes dans un jeu.
- 5Rapport entre des grandeurs en vertu duquel elles peuvent être substituées l’une à l’autre.
- 6Principe selon lequel les individus, au sein d’une communauté politique, doivent être traités de la même façon.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: egalite,géalité,éaglité,égailté,égalitté,égaliét,égallité,égaltié,éggalité,églaité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for égalité
Misspelling Variants of "égalité"
Frequency rank: #1,982 in French
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Nearby French words
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