fausseté
\fos.te\
The verdict
“fausseté” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,164. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,164
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité d’une chose fausse, ce qui rend une chose fausse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faussete · fausseté · French
fausseté · rank #46,164 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,164
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH faro
Nearest frequency peer: faro (-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 « fausseté »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- farceur
farceur
53,840 corpus weight
- farcis
farcis
53,839 corpus weight
- faro
faro
53,838 corpus weight
- fausseté
fausseté
53,837 corpus weight
- Favier
Favier
53,836 corpus weight
- Feldman
Feldman
53,835 corpus weight
What this shows « fausseté » 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 | fausseté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fos.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #46,164 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fausseté »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around fausseté (IPA \fos.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,164 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for fausseté, with forms such as "afusseté", "fasuseté", and "fausesté". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "fausse", "fausser", "faussée", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 fausseté, spelled F-A-U-S-S-E-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qualité d’une chose fausse, ce qui rend une chose fausse.
- 2Cette chose fausse elle-même.
- 3Duplicité, hypocrisie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fausseté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Berce-toi donc de cette croyance, dit de Bracy, jusqu’à ce que le temps en ait prouvé la fausseté.
Il a vomi des faussetés contre les vertus de nos médicaments, comme si c’étaient des inventions de Satan.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afusseté
- fasuseté
- fausesté
- fauseté
- faussete
- faussetté
- fausseét
- faussteé
- ffausseté
- fuasseté
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fausseté - 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).