infidélité

/\ɛ̃.fi.de.li.te\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#19,043

in French word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

infidélité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Manque de fidélité ; manquement à ses devoirs, en particulier conjugaux. Pronounced \ɛ̃.fi.de.li.te\. Often confused with infidélités and infidèle.

Key facts for infidélité
PropertyValue
Headwordinfidélité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ̃.fi.de.li.te\
Letters10
Frequency rank#19,043
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for infidélité is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.fi.de.li.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,043 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for infidélité, with forms such as "ifnidélité", "infdiélité", and "inffidélité". 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 also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "infidélités", "infidèle", 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 infidélité, spelled I-N-F-I-D-É-L-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
    Manque de fidélité ; manquement à ses devoirs, en particulier conjugaux.
  2. 2
    Actes d’infidélité.
  3. 3
    Manque d’exactitude, de vérité, en parlant des personnes et des choses.
  4. 4
    L’état de ceux qui ne sont pas dans la vraie religion.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ifnidélité,infdiélité,inffidélité,infiddélité,infidelite,infidléité,infidéilté,infidélitté,infidéliét,infidéllité,infidéltié,infiédlité,inifdélité,innfidélité,nifidélité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for infidélité

Misspelling Variants of "infidélité"

ifnidélité10infdiélité10inffidélité11infiddélité11infidelite10infidléité10infidéilté10infidélitté11
Misspelling Variants of "infidélité"

Frequency rank: #19,043 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "infidélité"?
"infidélité" is spelled I-N-F-I-D-É-L-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.fi.de.li.te\.
What does "infidélité" mean?
As a noun, "infidélité" means: Manque de fidélité ; manquement à ses devoirs, en particulier conjugaux.
What words are commonly confused with "infidélité"?
"infidélité" is commonly confused with "infidélités", "infidèle". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "infidélité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "infidélité" is \ɛ̃.fi.de.li.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "infidélité" come from?
"infidélité" 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.