maturité

\ma.ty.ʁi.te\

/\ma.ty.ʁi.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“maturité” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,110. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,110
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de développement complet des forces intellectuelles et physiques.

Corpus desk

Index FR-maturite · maturité · French

maturité · rank #6,110 · 12 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,110
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH marbre

Nearest frequency peer: marbre (-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 « maturité »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « maturité » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

maturité vs Maurice
50% similar
maturité vs maudite
63% similar
maturité vs mature
63% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for maturité
PropertyValue
Headwordmaturité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ma.ty.ʁi.te\
Letters8
Frequency rank#6,110
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « maturité »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).maturitése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « marbre » (#6,109), « mette » (#6,111), « litres » (#6,108). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « maturité » est au #6,110. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around maturité (IPA \ma.ty.ʁi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,110 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for maturité, with forms such as "amturité", "matruité", and "matturité". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Maurice", "maudite", "mature", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is maturité, spelled M-A-T-U-R-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    État de développement complet des forces intellectuelles et physiques.
  2. 2
    État où sont les fruits, les grains, les légumes quand ils ont muri.
  3. 3
    État des abcès lorsque la matière qu’ils contiennent va suppurer.
  4. 4
    Femme mûre.
  5. 5
    Baccalauréat, certificat attribué à la fin des études secondaires.
  6. 6
    Ce diplôme lui-même.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how maturité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le stéréotype de l'immaturité de la prostituée sera, on le sait, promis à un long avenir; il provient de la confusion, délibérément opérée, entre maturité et acceptation des valeurs de la société globale.
  2. Le fruit nommé cul-de-chien, nèfle d'Allemagne, est astringent avant sa maturité ; lorsqu'il a molli sur la paille c'est un aliment fort agréable ; […].

Antonyms

véraisonimmaturité

This word in other languages

maturity(English)madurez(Español)Reife(Deutsch)maturidade(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amturité
  • matruité
  • matturité
  • matuirté
  • maturite
  • maturitté
  • maturiét
  • maturrité
  • maturtié
  • mautrité
  • mmaturité
  • mtaurité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maturité - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

amturité2matruité2matturité1matuirté2maturite1maturitté1maturiét2maturrité1
Edit distance from "maturité"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "maturité"?
"maturité" is spelled M-A-T-U-R-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.ty.ʁi.te\.
What does "maturité" mean?
As a noun, "maturité" means: État de développement complet des forces intellectuelles et physiques.
What words are commonly confused with "maturité"?
"maturité" is commonly confused with "Maurice", "maudite", "mature". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "maturité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "maturité" is \ma.ty.ʁi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "maturité" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "maturité", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

justifie#6,107innocent#6,103inconnus#6,102héritier#6,096

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

idéologie12 variantspoursuivi12 variantspubliées12 variantsressortir12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list