fortuit
\fɔʁ.tɥi\
The verdict
“fortuit” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,465. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,465
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui arrive ou qu’on croit arriver par hasard, d’une manière imprévue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fortuit · fortuit · French
fortuit · rank #44,465 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,465
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH formalisation
Nearest frequency peer: formalisation (-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 « fortuit »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- flame
flame
55,539 corpus weight
- forceps
forceps
55,538 corpus weight
- formalisati…
formalisation
55,537 corpus weight
- fortuit
fortuit
55,536 corpus weight
- fouillent
fouillent
55,535 corpus weight
- friandise
friandise
55,534 corpus weight
What this shows « fortuit » 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 | fortuit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.tɥi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #44,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fortuit »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around fortuit (IPA \fɔʁ.tɥi\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #44,465 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui arrive ou qu’on croit arriver par hasard, d’une manière imprévue.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for fortuit, with forms such as "ffortuit", "forrtuit", and "fortiut". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "fruit", "fortune", "foutait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is fortuit, spelled F-O-R-T-U-I-T.
Definition
- 1Qui arrive ou qu’on croit arriver par hasard, d’une manière imprévue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fortuit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Selon son caractère, chaque membre de cette société fortuite contemple le ciel, s’en va sautillant pour ne pas se crotter, ou parce qu’il est pressé, ou parce qu’il voit des citoyens marchant malgré vent et marée, ou parce que la cour de la maison étant humide et catarrhalement mortelle, la lisière, dit le proverbe, est pire que le drap.
Son supérieur direct — une espèce de m’as-tu-vu arrogant, obsédé par les dernières lubies en matière de management et par le jargon creux qui allait avec — avait pondu une série d’instructions sans queue ni tête qui avaient eu pour conséquence fortuite de priver Lilian de toute responsabilité.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffortuit
- forrtuit
- fortiut
- forttuit
- fortuitt
- fortuti
- forutit
- fotruit
- frotuit
- ofrtuit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fortuit - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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