enthousiaste
\ɑ̃.tu.zjast\
The verdict
“enthousiaste” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,152. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,152
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui exprime ou qui dégage l’enthousiasme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enthousiaste · enthousiaste · French
enthousiaste · rank #12,152 · 17 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,152
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enrichissement
Nearest frequency peer: enrichissement (-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 « enthousiaste »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- déterminés
déterminés
87,853 corpus weight
- ecclésiasti…
ecclésiastique
87,852 corpus weight
- embarque
embarque
87,851 corpus weight
- enrichissem…
enrichissement
87,850 corpus weight
- enthousiaste
enthousiaste
87,849 corpus weight
- exploits
exploits
87,847 corpus weight
What this shows « enthousiaste » 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 | enthousiaste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tu.zjast\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #12,152 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « enthousiaste »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around enthousiaste (IPA \ɑ̃.tu.zjast\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,152 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui exprime ou qui dégage l’enthousiasme.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for enthousiaste, with forms such as "enhtousiaste", "ennthousiaste", and "enthhousiaste". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "enthousiastes", "enthousiasme", 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, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is enthousiaste, spelled E-N-T-H-O-U-S-I-A-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Qui exprime ou qui dégage l’enthousiasme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enthousiaste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et, vivement impressionné par la noblesse réelle du spectacle, je ne pus m’empêcher de mêler ma voix aux acclamations enthousiastes des croyants prosternés.
Et, de plus, il travaille pour la patrie, avec le consentement enthousiaste de tout ce que la France contient de repopulateurs.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- enhtousiaste
- ennthousiaste
- enthhousiaste
- enthosuiaste
- enthouisaste
- enthousaiste
- enthousiaset
- enthousiasste
- enthousiastte
- enthousiatse
- enthousisate
- enthoussiaste
- enthuosiaste
- entohusiaste
- entthousiaste
- etnhousiaste
- nethousiaste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of enthousiaste - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).