fortuite
\fɔʁ.tɥit\
The verdict
“fortuite” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,615. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,615
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de fortuit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fortuite · fortuite · French
fortuite · rank #30,615 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,615
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH formez
Nearest frequency peer: formez (-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 « fortuite »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- floral
floral
69,389 corpus weight
- flous
flous
69,388 corpus weight
- formez
formez
69,387 corpus weight
- fortuite
fortuite
69,386 corpus weight
- fraternelle
fraternelle
69,385 corpus weight
- fromagerie
fromagerie
69,384 corpus weight
What this shows « fortuite » 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 | fortuite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.tɥit\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #30,615 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fortuite »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around fortuite (IPA \fɔʁ.tɥit\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #30,615 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de fortuit.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for fortuite, with forms such as "ffortuite", "forrtuite", and "fortiute". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "fruité", "fortune", "fortunée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is fortuite, spelled F-O-R-T-U-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de fortuit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fortuite 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.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffortuite
- forrtuite
- fortiute
- forttuite
- fortuiet
- fortuitte
- fortutie
- forutite
- fotruite
- frotuite
- ofrtuite
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fortuite - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).