énormité
\e.nɔʁ.mi.te\
The verdict
“énormité” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,129. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,129
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité de ce qui est énorme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enormite · énormité · French
énormité · rank #42,129 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,129
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH électrolyse
Nearest frequency peer: électrolyse (-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 « énormité »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- zouaves
zouaves
57,875 corpus weight
- écouteur
écouteur
57,874 corpus weight
- électrolyse
électrolyse
57,873 corpus weight
- énormité
énormité
57,872 corpus weight
- éoliens
éoliens
57,871 corpus weight
- épargnées
épargnées
57,870 corpus weight
What this shows « énormité » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | énormité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.nɔʁ.mi.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #42,129 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « énormité »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around énormité (IPA \e.nɔʁ.mi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,129 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for énormité, with forms such as "enormite", "néormité", and "énnormité". 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, "ermite", "enorme", "endormie", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is énormité, spelled É-N-O-R-M-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qualité de ce qui est énorme.
- 2Gravité, atrocité, en parlant de crimes, de méfaits.
- 3Actions honteuses ou atroces.
- 4Opinions, paroles absurdes, extravagantes, odieuses, révoltantes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how énormité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On conçoit aisément l’énormité de la tâche si l'on songe au nombre de populations qui ont pu depuis le Néogène être progressivement insularisées chorologiquement et surtout écologiquement autour de la Méditerranée.
Tentons de saisir l’énormité des distances impliquées. Il y a environ 200 milliards d’étoiles dans notre galaxie qui a un diamètre de 100 000 années-lumière.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- enormite
- néormité
- énnormité
- énomrité
- énorimté
- énormitté
- énormiét
- énormmité
- énormtié
- énorrmité
- énromité
- éonrmité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of énormité - 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.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).