lithographie
\li.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi\
The verdict
“lithographie” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,936. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,936
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Procédé par lequel on obtient sur du papier, au moyen de la presse, l’empreinte de ce qui a été dessiné ou écrit, sur une pierre d’une espèce particulière, avec un crayon ou avec une encre d’une ce...
Corpus desk
Index FR-lithographie · lithographie · French
lithographie · rank #36,936 · 18 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #36,936
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lissage
Nearest frequency peer: lissage (-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 « lithographie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lisibles
lisibles
63,068 corpus weight
- lisons
lisons
63,067 corpus weight
- lissage
lissage
63,066 corpus weight
- lithographie
lithographie
63,065 corpus weight
- Liégeoise
Liégeoise
63,064 corpus weight
- lolo
lolo
63,063 corpus weight
What this shows « lithographie » 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 | lithographie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #36,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lithographie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around lithographie (IPA \li.tɔ.ɡʁa.fi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,936 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for lithographie, with forms such as "ilthographie", "lihtographie", and "lithgoraphie". 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, "lithographies", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is lithographie, spelled L-I-T-H-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-E.
Definition
- 1Procédé par lequel on obtient sur du papier, au moyen de la presse, l’empreinte de ce qui a été dessiné ou écrit, sur une pierre d’une espèce particulière, avec un crayon ou avec une encre d’une certaine composition.
- 2Image imprimée par ce procédé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lithographie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La lithographie est une invention de la fin du dix-huitième siècle.
Madame Matifat, qui connaît les Arts, achetait des lithographies, des lithochromies, des dessins coloriés, tout ce qu’il y avait de meilleur marché.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilthographie
- lihtographie
- lithgoraphie
- lithhographie
- lithogarphie
- lithoggraphie
- lithograhpie
- lithographei
- lithographhie
- lithograpihe
- lithograpphie
- lithogrpahie
- lithogrraphie
- lithorgaphie
- litohgraphie
- litthographie
- llithographie
- ltihographie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lithographie - 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 "lithographie", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).