mentalité
\mɑ̃.ta.li.te\
The verdict
“mentalité” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,595. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,595
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État d’esprit ; habitudes de pensée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mentalite · mentalité · French
mentalité · rank #7,595 · 14 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,595
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH masculine
Nearest frequency peer: masculine (-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 « mentalité »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- manœuvre
manœuvre
92,409 corpus weight
- mariés
mariés
92,408 corpus weight
- masculine
masculine
92,407 corpus weight
- mentalité
mentalité
92,406 corpus weight
- Mercedes
Mercedes
92,405 corpus weight
- modération
modération
92,404 corpus weight
What this shows « mentalité » 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 | mentalité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.ta.li.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,595 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mentalité »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around mentalité (IPA \mɑ̃.ta.li.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,595 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "État d’esprit ; habitudes de pensée.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for mentalité, with forms such as "emntalité", "menatlité", and "menntalité". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "mortalité", "mentalités", "mentale", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 mentalité, spelled M-E-N-T-A-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1État d’esprit ; habitudes de pensée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mentalité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il narra, en une esquisse sommaire et avec les omissions et les inexactitudes naturelles à son genre de mentalité, la série de ses aventures.
La Scolastique […] a accrédité une mentalité qui n’a pas prise sur le réel, qui tient pour légitimes certaines illusions structurales de notre esprit : notre tendance à réaliser nos concepts et à réifier toutes choses.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emntalité
- menatlité
- menntalité
- mentailté
- mentalite
- mentalitté
- mentaliét
- mentallité
- mentaltié
- mentlaité
- menttalité
- metnalité
- mmentalité
- mnetalité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mentalité - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).