indemnité
\ɛ̃.dɛm.ni.te\
The verdict
“indemnité” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,728. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,728
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce qu’on alloue à quelqu’un en vue de l’indemniser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-indemnite · indemnité · French
indemnité · rank #8,728 · 14 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,728
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH incontournable
Nearest frequency peer: incontournable (-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 « indemnité »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- incertitude
incertitude
91,276 corpus weight
- inciter
inciter
91,275 corpus weight
- incontourna…
incontournable
91,274 corpus weight
- indemnité
indemnité
91,273 corpus weight
- jouez
jouez
91,272 corpus weight
- laissons
laissons
91,271 corpus weight
What this shows « indemnité » 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 | indemnité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.dɛm.ni.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #8,728 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « indemnité »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around indemnité (IPA \ɛ̃.dɛm.ni.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,728 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for indemnité, with forms such as "idnemnité", "inddemnité", and "indeminté". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "indignité", "indemnités", "indemne", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is indemnité, spelled I-N-D-E-M-N-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Ce qu’on alloue à quelqu’un en vue de l’indemniser.
- 2Sommes allouées à certains fonctionnaires et qui ne sont pas soumises à la retenue pour la retraite.
- 3Acte par lequel on promet d’indemniser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how indemnité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le ministre du Travail, Olivier Dussopt, a annoncé sur France 3 que la concertation sur la réforme de l’assurance-chômage, qui doit faire varier les indemnités versées en fonction de la conjoncture, sera ouverte « dans une dizaine de jours ».
Une indemnité d'encouragement fut votée, séance tenante, en faveur du docteur Fergusson, et s'éleva au chiffre de deux mille cinq cents livres.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- idnemnité
- inddemnité
- indeminté
- indemmnité
- indemnite
- indemnitté
- indemniét
- indemnnité
- indemntié
- indenmité
- indmenité
- inedmnité
- inndemnité
- nidemnité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of indemnité - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).