félicité

\fe.li.si.te\

/\fe.li.si.te\/ noun

The verdict

“félicité” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,414. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#11,414
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Béatitude ; grand bonheur.

Corpus desk

Index FR-felicite · félicité · French

félicité · rank #11,414 · 12 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #11,414
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH fournitures

Nearest frequency peer: fournitures (-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 « félicité »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « félicité » 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).

félicité vs féminité
75% similar
félicité vs férocité
75% similar
félicité vs féliciter
78% similar

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

Key facts for félicité
PropertyValue
Headwordfélicité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fe.li.si.te\
Letters8
Frequency rank#11,414
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « félicité »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.félicitése place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « fournitures » (#11,413), « Galles » (#11,415), « focus » (#11,412). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « félicité » est au #11,414. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around félicité (IPA \fe.li.si.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,414 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Béatitude ; grand bonheur.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for félicité, with forms such as "felicite", "ffélicité", and "fléicité". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "féminité", "férocité", "féliciter", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is félicité, spelled F-É-L-I-C-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Béatitude ; grand bonheur.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Quelle fut ma félicité, lorsque je me trouvai encore une fois dans la solitude avec Atala, avec Atala ma libératrice, avec Atala qui se donnait à moi pour toujours !
  2. Charles trouva dans son premier compagnon de route un de ces cœurs si rares où il put verser tous ses chagrins en racontant ses félicités.

Synonyms

Antonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • felicite
  • ffélicité
  • fléicité
  • féilcité
  • félciité
  • féliccité
  • félicitté
  • féliciét
  • félictié
  • féliicté
  • féllicité
  • éflicité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

felicite2ffélicité1fléicité2féilcité2félciité2féliccité1félicitté1féliciét2
Edit distance from "félicité"

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 "félicité"?
"félicité" is spelled F-É-L-I-C-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \fe.li.si.te\.
What does "félicité" mean?
As a noun, "félicité" means: Béatitude ; grand bonheur.
What words are commonly confused with "félicité"?
"félicité" is commonly confused with "féminité", "férocité", "féliciter". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "félicité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "félicité" is \fe.li.si.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "félicité" come from?
"félicité" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

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).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list