masculinité
\mas.ky.li.ni.te\
The verdict
“masculinité” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,181. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,181
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère ou qualité de mâle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-masculinite · masculinité · French
masculinité · rank #34,181 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #34,181
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marino
Nearest frequency peer: marino (-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 « masculinité »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- manufacturi…
manufacturière
65,823 corpus weight
- Marat
Marat
65,822 corpus weight
- marino
marino
65,821 corpus weight
- masculinité
masculinité
65,820 corpus weight
- matériellem…
matériellement
65,818 corpus weight
- mendicité
mendicité
65,817 corpus weight
What this shows « masculinité » 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 | masculinité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mas.ky.li.ni.te\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #34,181 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « masculinité »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around masculinité (IPA \mas.ky.li.ni.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,181 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Caractère ou qualité de mâle.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for masculinité, with forms such as "amsculinité", "macsulinité", and "mascculinité". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "masculine", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 masculinité, spelled M-A-S-C-U-L-I-N-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Caractère ou qualité de mâle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how masculinité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'objectif de l'utilisation de la sissy est double : il est en premier lieu de faire rire, mais il sert aussi à réaffirmer l'idéal de la masculinité (The Soilers en 1923, Wanderer ofthe West en 1927, La Joyeuse Divorcée en 1934...).
L'attention est ainsi également attirée sur les positions sociales qui précisément ne subissent pas de marginalisation ni de discrimination ; un travail qui a été systématiquement entamé ces dernières années par les études critiques de la masculinité, celles de la blanchitude (whiteness) et la critique de l’hétéronormativité.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amsculinité
- macsulinité
- mascculinité
- mascluinité
- mascuilnité
- masculiinté
- masculinite
- masculinitté
- masculiniét
- masculinnité
- masculintié
- mascullinité
- masculniité
- massculinité
- masuclinité
- mmasculinité
- msaculinité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of masculinité - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).