férocité

\fe.ʁɔ.si.te\

/\fe.ʁɔ.si.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“férocité” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,456. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#43,456
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Naturel féroce.

Corpus desk

Index FR-ferocite · férocité · French

férocité · rank #43,456 · 12 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #43,456
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH féerie

Nearest frequency peer: féerie (-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 « férocité »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « férocité » 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).

férocité vs féroce
63% similar
férocité vs félicité
75% similar

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

Key facts for férocité
PropertyValue
Headwordférocité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fe.ʁɔ.si.te\
Letters8
Frequency rank#43,456
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « férocité »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.férocitése 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 « féerie » (#43,455), « Gabriela » (#43,457), « fuyards » (#43,454). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « férocité » est au #43,456. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around férocité (IPA \fe.ʁɔ.si.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,456 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for férocité, with forms such as "ferocite", "fférocité", and "fréocité". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "féroce", "félicité", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 férocité, spelled F-É-R-O-C-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Naturel féroce.
  2. 2
    Aspect féroce.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La férocité des conventionnels s’explique facilement par l’influence des conceptions que le Tiers État avait puisées dans les pratiques détestables de l’Ancien Régime.
  2. Comme Tonsard, que son renom dispensait de toute preuve de férocité, comme tous ceux qui sont gardés par une opinion publique quelconque, Socquard ne déployait jamais sa triomphante force musculaire, à moins que des amis ne l’en priassent.

This word in other languages

ferocity(English)ferocidad(Español)ferocidade(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ferocite
  • fférocité
  • fréocité
  • féorcité
  • fércoité
  • féroccité
  • férocitté
  • férociét
  • féroctié
  • féroicté
  • férrocité
  • éfrocité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of férocité - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ferocite2fférocité1fréocité2féorcité2fércoité2féroccité1férocitté1férociét2
Edit distance from "férocité"

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 "férocité"?
"férocité" is spelled F-É-R-O-C-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \fe.ʁɔ.si.te\.
What does "férocité" mean?
As a noun, "férocité" means: Naturel féroce.
What words are commonly confused with "férocité"?
"férocité" is commonly confused with "féroce", "félicité". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "férocité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "férocité" is \fe.ʁɔ.si.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "férocité" come from?
"férocité" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

Gabriela#43,457fructose#43,453frottant#43,452gauchers#43,461

Similar misspelling depth

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

fixement12 variantsgourmets12 variantsgrillades12 variantsguinéens12 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list