idolâtrie
\i.dɔ.lɑ.tʁi\
The verdict
“idolâtrie” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,804. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,804
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Adoration des idoles, culte des dieux d’une religion polythéiste ou animiste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-idolatrie · idolâtrie · French
idolâtrie · rank #46,804 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,804
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH hébergées
Nearest frequency peer: hébergées (-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 « idolâtrie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Honorine
Honorine
53,199 corpus weight
- hébergées
hébergées
53,198 corpus weight
- idolâtrie
idolâtrie
53,197 corpus weight
- imbroglio
imbroglio
53,195 corpus weight
- immatriculés
immatriculés
53,194 corpus weight
- immuables
immuables
53,193 corpus weight
What this shows « idolâtrie » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | idolâtrie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.dɔ.lɑ.tʁi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #46,804 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « idolâtrie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around idolâtrie (IPA \i.dɔ.lɑ.tʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,804 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for idolâtrie, with forms such as "diolâtrie", "iddolâtrie", and "idloâtrie". 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. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 idolâtrie, spelled I-D-O-L-Â-T-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Adoration des idoles, culte des dieux d’une religion polythéiste ou animiste.
- 2Amour excessif pour une personne ou pour une chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how idolâtrie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le christianisme est tombé dans l’idolâtrie avec la théorie de la Trinité, l'invocation des saints, la mariolâtrie, et surtout la démonophobie.
Pour dom Gonzagues, que la direction du parti catholique avait revigoré, les nouveaux venus seraient pardonnés dès lors qu’ils entonneraient le Credo. Pour les protestants, seule une renonciation complète à l’idolâtrie était acceptable.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- diolâtrie
- iddolâtrie
- idloâtrie
- idolatrie
- idollâtrie
- idoltârie
- idolârtie
- idolâtire
- idolâtrei
- idolâtrrie
- idolâttrie
- idoâltrie
- iodlâtrie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of idolâtrie - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).