initie
\i.ni.si\
The verdict
“initie” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,822. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,822
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de initier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-initie · initie · French
initie · rank #29,822 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,822
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH initiatique
Nearest frequency peer: initiatique (-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 « initie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- informant
informant
70,182 corpus weight
- informent
informent
70,181 corpus weight
- initiatique
initiatique
70,180 corpus weight
- initie
initie
70,179 corpus weight
- insultent
insultent
70,178 corpus weight
- intacts
intacts
70,177 corpus weight
What this shows « initie » 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 | initie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \i.ni.si\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,822 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « initie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around initie (IPA \i.ni.si\), averb. Corpus frequency is #29,822 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for initie, with forms such as "iintie", "iniite", and "initei". 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. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "invite", "intime", "inouïe", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is initie, spelled I-N-I-T-I-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de initier.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de initier.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de initier.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de initier.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de initier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how initie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sept (très) longs épisodes retracent l’enfance pieuse en Italie de Rocco Tano et son arrivée à Paris avec son demi-frère Tommaso qui l’initie au banditisme et au goût pour les prostituées.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iintie
- iniite
- initei
- inittie
- innitie
- intiie
- niitie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of initie - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "initie", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).