hérédité
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#33,729
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
hérédité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Droit de recueillir la totalité ou une partie des biens qu’une personne laisse à son décès. Pronounced \e.ʁe.di.te\. Often confused with hérite and hérésie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hérédité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ʁe.di.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #33,729 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for hérédité is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ʁe.di.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #33,729 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for hérédité, with forms such as "heredite", "hhérédité", and "hréédité". 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.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "hérite", "hérésie", "hermite", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 hérédité, spelled H-É-R-É-D-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Droit de recueillir la totalité ou une partie des biens qu’une personne laisse à son décès.
- 2Succession au trône.
- 3Privilège accordé à un office que le roi rendait héréditaire, sans que le titulaire fût assujetti au paiement du droit de prêt et d’annuel.
- 4Transmission des traits génétiques qui déterminent le phénotype, tout en tenant compte de l’interaction avec l’environnement et les expériences de vie.
- 5Qualité d'une proposition héréditaire.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: heredite,hhérédité,hréédité,hérdéité,hérrédité,héréddité,héréditté,hérédiét,hérédtié,héréidté,héérdité,éhrédité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "hérédité"
Frequency rank: #33,729 in French
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Nearby French words
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