laïcité
\la.i.si.te\
The verdict
“laïcité” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,778. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,778
- frequency rank, French
- 128,088
- “L” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Principe de séparation entre l’État et les institutions religieuses, l’État n’exerçant aucun pouvoir religieux et les Églises aucun pouvoir politique.
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 | 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) |
Where “laïcité” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around laïcité (IPA \la.i.si.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,778 among 128,088 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for laïcité, with forms such as "alïcité", "lacïité", and "laïccité". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "limite", "licite", "ladite", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is laïcité, spelled L-A-Ï-C-I-T-É.
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.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alïcité
- lacïité
- laïccité
- laïcite
- laïcitté
- laïciét
- laïctié
- laïicté
- llaïcité
- lïacité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of laïcité - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “laïcité”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-A-Ï-C-I-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \la.i.si.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “limite” - see the side-by-side comparison. laïcité vs limite
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.