fitness
\fit.nɛs\
The verdict
“fitness” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,881. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,881
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Entrainement physique ; remise en forme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fitness · fitness · French
fitness · rank #16,881 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,881
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fis
Nearest frequency peer: fis (-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 « fitness »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ferroviaires
ferroviaires
83,123 corpus weight
- fig
fig
83,122 corpus weight
- fis
fis
83,121 corpus weight
- fitness
fitness
83,120 corpus weight
- fosses
fosses
83,119 corpus weight
- Foucault
Foucault
83,118 corpus weight
What this shows « fitness » 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 | fitness |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fit.nɛs\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,881 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fitness »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around fitness (IPA \fit.nɛs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,881 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Entrainement physique ; remise en forme.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for fitness, with forms such as "ffitness", "fintess", and "fitenss". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "fines", "finesse", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fitness, spelled F-I-T-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Entrainement physique ; remise en forme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fitness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le centre est ainsi équipé d’une salle de fitness qui couvre pas moins de 524m² (la plus grande jamais vue en Europe par Philippe Collin), de différents espaces consacrés au repos des joueurs pour un total de 145m², d’un espace balnéo pour la récupération et la revalidation, d’une salle de kiné et de médecine.
Découvrez-la en pleine action dans une vidéo qu’elle a posté sur son site internet et où on la voit au fitness et à la piscine.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffitness
- fintess
- fitenss
- fitnes
- fitnness
- fitnses
- fittness
- ftiness
- iftness
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fitness - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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