formalité
\fɔʁ.ma.li.te\
The verdict
“formalité” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,024. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,024
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Formule prescrite obligatoirement pour la validité de certains actes civils, judiciaires, administratifs, religieux, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-formalite · formalité · French
formalité · rank #19,024 · 14 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,024
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Forbes
Nearest frequency peer: Forbes (-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 « formalité »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- finissant
finissant
80,980 corpus weight
- folio
folio
80,979 corpus weight
- Forbes
Forbes
80,978 corpus weight
- formalité
formalité
80,977 corpus weight
- formulaires
formulaires
80,976 corpus weight
- fraser
fraser
80,974 corpus weight
What this shows « formalité » 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 | formalité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.ma.li.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « formalité »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around formalité (IPA \fɔʁ.ma.li.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,024 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for formalité, with forms such as "fformalité", "fomralité", and "foramlité". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "formaté", "formalités", "formait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 formalité, spelled F-O-R-M-A-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Formule prescrite obligatoirement pour la validité de certains actes civils, judiciaires, administratifs, religieux, etc.
- 2Ensemble d’usages et d’actes d’une civilité recherchée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how formalité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous n’eûmes pas à subir les formalités de la douane : l’Islande et les îles Fortunées sont les deux seuls pays où je n’aie pas rencontré cette aimable institution.
Je la revis un an après avec son enfant. Elle me demanda d’être témoin à la mairie pour la reconnaissance. Il y avait des formalités compliquées, car l’enfant était né à l’étranger.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fformalité
- fomralité
- foramlité
- formailté
- formalite
- formalitté
- formaliét
- formallité
- formaltié
- formlaité
- formmalité
- forrmalité
- fromalité
- ofrmalité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of formalité - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "formalité", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).