fraternité

/\fʁa.tɛʁ.ni.te\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,325

in French word usage

Misspellings

16

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

fraternité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lien de parenté qui unit les enfants, frères et sœurs, nés des mêmes parents. Pronounced \fʁa.tɛʁ.ni.te\. It ranks #7,325 in French word frequency.

Key facts for fraternité
PropertyValue
Headwordfraternité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fʁa.tɛʁ.ni.te\
Letters10
Frequency rank#7,325
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of fraternité in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for fraternité is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for fraternité, with forms such as "farternité", "ffraternité", and "fraetrnité". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is fraternité, spelled F-R-A-T-E-R-N-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lien de parenté qui unit les enfants, frères et sœurs, nés des mêmes parents.
  2. 2
    Idée selon laquelle tous les humains, hommes et femmes, sont égaux et méritent égale dignité et égale considération.
  3. 3
    Liaison étroite que contractent ensemble ceux qui, sans être frères, se traitent néanmoins comme des frères.
  4. 4
    Organisme, association, à caractère religieux, entre personnes voulant vivre de façon fraternelle.
  5. 5
    Société d'étudiants organisée au sein des universités d'Amérique du Nord.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: farternité,ffraternité,fraetrnité,fratenrité,fraterinté,fraternite,fraternitté,fraterniét,fraternnité,fraterntié,fraterrnité,fratrenité,fratternité,frraternité,frtaernité,rfaternité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fraternité

Misspelling Variants of "fraternité"

farternité10ffraternité11fraetrnité10fratenrité10fraterinté10fraternite10fraternitté11fraterniét10
Misspelling Variants of "fraternité"

Frequency rank: #7,325 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fraternité"?
"fraternité" is spelled F-R-A-T-E-R-N-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \fʁa.tɛʁ.ni.te\.
What does "fraternité" mean?
As a noun, "fraternité" means: Lien de parenté qui unit les enfants, frères et sœurs, nés des mêmes parents.
What are common misspellings of "fraternité"?
Common misspellings include "farternité", "ffraternité", "fraetrnité", "fratenrité", "fraterinté". The correct spelling is "fraternité".
How do you pronounce "fraternité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fraternité" is \fʁa.tɛʁ.ni.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fraternité" come from?
"fraternité" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.