insécurité
\ɛ̃.se.ky.ʁi.te\
The verdict
“insécurité” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,179. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,179
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manque de sécurité, perception d’une situation menaçante ou imprévisible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-insecurite · insécurité · French
insécurité · rank #9,179 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #9,179
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH innovations
Nearest frequency peer: innovations (-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 « insécurité »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- honorer
honorer
90,825 corpus weight
- indigènes
indigènes
90,824 corpus weight
- innovations
innovations
90,823 corpus weight
- insécurité
insécurité
90,822 corpus weight
- interaction
interaction
90,821 corpus weight
- intervenants
intervenants
90,820 corpus weight
What this shows « insécurité » 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 | insécurité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.se.ky.ʁi.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #9,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « insécurité »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around insécurité (IPA \ɛ̃.se.ky.ʁi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,179 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Manque de sécurité, perception d’une situation menaçante ou imprévisible.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for insécurité, with forms such as "innsécurité", "inscéurité", and "insecurite". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "inscrite", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is insécurité, spelled I-N-S-É-C-U-R-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Manque de sécurité, perception d’une situation menaçante ou imprévisible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how insécurité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Conscients de leurs forces mutuelles dans l’agroalimentaire et les technologies connexes, l’Italie et le Canada s’efforceront de collaborer dans ces domaines en vue de trouver des solutions à l’insécurité alimentaire et aux perturbations de la chaîne d’approvisionnement.
La courte nuit d’été lui parut cependant interminablement longue. Il éprouvait une sensation désagréable d’insécurité et il s’imaginait, sans la moindre raison, que le jour la dissiperait.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- innsécurité
- inscéurité
- insecurite
- inssécurité
- inséccurité
- insécruité
- insécuirté
- insécuritté
- insécuriét
- insécurrité
- insécurtié
- inséucrité
- inéscurité
- isnécurité
- nisécurité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of insécurité - 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 "insécurité", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).