localité
\lɔ.ka.li.te\
The verdict
“localité” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,877. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,877
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu habité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-localite · localité · French
localité · rank #8,877 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,877
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH limitation
Nearest frequency peer: limitation (-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 « localité »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- leo
leo
91,127 corpus weight
- lignée
lignée
91,126 corpus weight
- limitation
limitation
91,125 corpus weight
- localité
localité
91,124 corpus weight
- Lucie
Lucie
91,123 corpus weight
- lycéens
lycéens
91,122 corpus weight
What this shows « localité » 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 | localité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɔ.ka.li.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,877 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « localité »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around localité (IPA \lɔ.ka.li.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,877 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for localité, with forms such as "lcoalité", "llocalité", and "loaclité". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "locative", "localités", "locale", and more, 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 is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is localité, spelled L-O-C-A-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Lieu habité.
- 2Petite ville, village, etc.
- 3Particularité ou circonstance locale : lieu, milieu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how localité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’arrivée du steamer est une fête pour les marchands danois exilés dans cette localité, qu'aucun fil télégraphique ne relie au reste du monde ; […].
De même, pour le département de Seine-et-Marne, le dictionnaire topographique paru en 1954 permet de relever les noms de 87 localités disparues : 4 seulement sont données pour paroisses ou villages ; les autres sont des hameaux ou encore des écarts de 3 ou 4 maisons.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lcoalité
- llocalité
- loaclité
- locailté
- localite
- localitté
- localiét
- locallité
- localtié
- loccalité
- loclaité
- olcalité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of localité - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "localité", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).