féminité

\fe.mi.ni.te\

/\fe.mi.ni.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“féminité” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,734. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,734
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de ce qui est féminin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-feminite · féminité · French

féminité · rank #20,734 · 12 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #20,734
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH frégate

Nearest frequency peer: frégate (-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 « féminité »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « féminité » 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).

féminité vs feinte
50% similar
féminité vs féminin
75% similar
féminité vs féminine
75% similar

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

Key facts for féminité
PropertyValue
Headwordféminité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fe.mi.ni.te\
Letters8
Frequency rank#20,734
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « féminité »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).féminitése 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 « frégate » (#20,733), « frontal » (#20,732), « Gagnon » (#20,736). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « féminité » est au #20,734. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around féminité (IPA \fe.mi.ni.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,734 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Caractère de ce qui est féminin.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for féminité, with forms such as "feminite", "fféminité", and "fméinité". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "feinte", "féminin", "féminine", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is féminité, spelled F-É-M-I-N-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Caractère de ce qui est féminin.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le vaisseau de la féminité : galbée en proue, majestueuse en poupe et poivrée dans les écoutilles.
  2. Mais priver la femme de sa féminité ne peut-être qu’un appauvrissement pour elle et pour l’humanité.

Antonyms

masculinitévirilité

This word in other languages

femininity(English)feminidad(Español)Fraulichkeit(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • feminite
  • fféminité
  • fméinité
  • féimnité
  • fémiinté
  • féminitté
  • féminiét
  • féminnité
  • fémintié
  • fémminité
  • fémniité
  • éfminité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

feminite2fféminité1fméinité2féimnité2fémiinté2féminitté1féminiét2féminnité1
Edit distance from "féminité"

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 "féminité"?
"féminité" is spelled F-É-M-I-N-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \fe.mi.ni.te\.
What does "féminité" mean?
As a noun, "féminité" means: Caractère de ce qui est féminin.
What words are commonly confused with "féminité"?
"féminité" is commonly confused with "feinte", "féminin", "féminine". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "féminité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "féminité" is \fe.mi.ni.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "féminité" come from?
"féminité" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

fouetter#20,729fonciers#20,728figurine#20,724honteuse#20,753

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

fourneaux12 variantsfanatique12 variantsenlevées12 variantsimmortels12 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list