laïcité
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,778
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
laïcité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Principe de séparation entre l’État et les institutions religieuses, l’État n’exerçant aucun pouvoir religieux et les Églises aucun pouvoir politique. Pronounced \la.i.si.te\. It ranks #5,778 in French word frequency. Often confused with limite and licite.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laïcité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.i.si.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for laïcité is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la.i.si.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,778 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for laïcité, with forms such as "alïcité", "lacïité", and "laïccité". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "limite", "licite", "ladite", 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 laïcité, spelled L-A-Ï-C-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Principe de séparation entre l’État et les institutions religieuses, l’État n’exerçant aucun pouvoir religieux et les Églises aucun pouvoir politique.
- 2Caractère de neutralité religieuse, d’indépendance à l’égard de toutes Églises et confessions.
- 3Absence d’emprise de la religion sur la société.
- 4Vision de la société préconisant l’exclusion de toute référence à la religion dans la sphère publique.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: alïcité,lacïité,laïccité,laïcite,laïcitté,laïciét,laïctié,laïicté,llaïcité,lïacité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "laïcité"
Frequency rank: #5,778 in French
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