libertinage
\li.bɛʁ.ti.naʒ\
The verdict
“libertinage” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,126. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,126
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Refus des contraintes. Dérèglement dans les mœurs, dans la conduite, en particulier sur le plan sexuel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-libertinage · libertinage · French
libertinage · rank #35,126 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #35,126
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH liane
Nearest frequency peer: liane (-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 « libertinage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Lellouche
Lellouche
64,878 corpus weight
- lesbien
lesbien
64,877 corpus weight
- liane
liane
64,876 corpus weight
- libertinage
libertinage
64,875 corpus weight
- license
license
64,874 corpus weight
- Linky
Linky
64,873 corpus weight
What this shows « libertinage » 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 | libertinage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.bɛʁ.ti.naʒ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #35,126 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « libertinage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around libertinage (IPA \li.bɛʁ.ti.naʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,126 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for libertinage, with forms such as "ilbertinage", "lbiertinage", and "libbertinage". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "libertine", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 libertinage, spelled L-I-B-E-R-T-I-N-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Refus des contraintes. Dérèglement dans les mœurs, dans la conduite, en particulier sur le plan sexuel.
- 2Liberté d'opinion en matière de religion. Liberté de mœurs qui accompagne ce scepticisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how libertinage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
– Vous êtes d’un naturel si doux et si aimable, me dit-il un jour que je ne puis comprendre les désordres dont on vous accuse. Deux choses m’étonnent : l’une, comment, avec de si bonnes qualités, vous avez pu vous livrer à l’excès du libertinage ; et l’autre que j’admire encore plus, comment vous recevez si volontiers mes conseils et mes instructions, apr…
Le Livre d’Ézéchiel n’en fut pas moins inséré dans le Canon des Auteurs inspirés de Dieu : il est vrai que la Synagogue n’en permettait pas la lecture avant l’âge de trente ans, comme nous l’apprend St. Jérôme ; mais c’était de peur que la jeunesse n’abusât des peintures trop naïves qu’on trouve dans les chapitres 16 et 23 du libertinage des deux sœurs Ol…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilbertinage
- lbiertinage
- libbertinage
- liberitnage
- liberrtinage
- libertiange
- libertinaeg
- libertinagge
- libertingae
- libertinnage
- libertniage
- liberttinage
- libetrinage
- libretinage
- liebrtinage
- llibertinage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of libertinage - 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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