fraternité
\fʁa.tɛʁ.ni.te\
The verdict
“fraternité” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #7,325 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #7,325
- frequency rank, French
- 10
- letters
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Lien de parenté qui unit les enfants, frères et sœurs, nés des mêmes parents.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fraternité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁa.tɛʁ.ni.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #7,325 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fraternité” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fraternité is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁa.tɛʁ.ni.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,325 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for fraternité, with forms such as "farternité", "ffraternité", and "fraetrnité". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 fraternité, spelled F-R-A-T-E-R-N-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Lien de parenté qui unit les enfants, frères et sœurs, nés des mêmes parents.
- 2Idée selon laquelle tous les humains, hommes et femmes, sont égaux et méritent égale dignité et égale considération.
- 3Liaison étroite que contractent ensemble ceux qui, sans être frères, se traitent néanmoins comme des frères.
- 4Organisme, association, à caractère religieux, entre personnes voulant vivre de façon fraternelle.
- 5Société d'étudiants organisée au sein des universités d'Amérique du Nord.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: farternité,ffraternité,fraetrnité,fratenrité,fraterinté,fraternite,fraternitté,fraterniét,fraternnité,fraterntié,fraterrnité,fratrenité,fratternité,frraternité,frtaernité,rfaternité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fraternité - 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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Using “fraternité”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-R-A-T-E-R-N-I-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fʁa.tɛʁ.ni.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.