fétichiste
\fe.ti.ʃist\
The verdict
“fétichiste” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,897. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,897
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui pratique le fétichisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fetichiste · fétichiste · French
fétichiste · rank #42,897 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #42,897
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Fécamp
Nearest frequency peer: Fécamp (-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 « fétichiste »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Fuentes
Fuentes
57,107 corpus weight
- Futuna
Futuna
57,106 corpus weight
- Fécamp
Fécamp
57,105 corpus weight
- fétichiste
fétichiste
57,104 corpus weight
- gardais
gardais
57,102 corpus weight
- gaufre
gaufre
57,101 corpus weight
What this shows « fétichiste » 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 | fétichiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fe.ti.ʃist\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #42,897 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fétichiste »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around fétichiste (IPA \fe.ti.ʃist\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #42,897 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui pratique le fétichisme.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for fétichiste, with forms such as "fetichiste", "ffétichiste", and "ftéichiste". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "fétichisme", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 fétichiste, spelled F-É-T-I-C-H-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Qui pratique le fétichisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fétichiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle se rappelait que Dechartre lui avait dit : « L’amour est fétichiste. J’ai cueilli sur la terrasse les baies noires et desséchées d’un troène, que vous aviez regardé. » Pourquoi n’avait-elle pas songé à emporter une petite pierre du pavillon où elle avait oublié le monde ?
Sur le front, juste au milieu, la croix berbère était tracée en bleu, symbole inconnu, inexplicable chez ces peuplades autochtones qui ne furent jamais chrétiennes et que l'islam vint prendre toutes sauvages et fétichistes, pour sa grande floraison de foi et d'espérance.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fetichiste
- ffétichiste
- ftéichiste
- féitchiste
- fétcihiste
- féticchiste
- fétichhiste
- fétichiset
- fétichisste
- fétichistte
- fétichitse
- fétichsite
- féticihste
- fétihciste
- féttichiste
- éftichiste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fétichiste - 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.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).