mentalités
\mɑ̃.ta.li.te\
The verdict
“mentalités” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,680. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,680
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de mentalité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mentalites · mentalités · French
mentalités · rank #15,680 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,680
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maçons
Nearest frequency peer: maçons (-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 « mentalités »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- marrer
marrer
84,324 corpus weight
- Martha
Martha
84,323 corpus weight
- maçons
maçons
84,322 corpus weight
- mentalités
mentalités
84,321 corpus weight
- mettrai
mettrai
84,320 corpus weight
- mile
mile
84,319 corpus weight
What this shows « mentalités » 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 | mentalités |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.ta.li.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #15,680 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mentalités »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around mentalités (IPA \mɑ̃.ta.li.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,680 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de mentalité.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for mentalités, with forms such as "emntalités", "menatlités", and "menntalités". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "mentales", "mentalité", "mensualités", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mentalités, spelled M-E-N-T-A-L-I-T-É-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de mentalité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mentalités appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Kodak éduque l’œil et la sensibilité de milliers de jeunes gens ; la radio, intelligemment dispensée, peut former l’oreille et le goût d’un public bien plus vaste que les auditeurs de concerts ; la vitesse décantonalise les mentalités, et met la diversité du monde à portée de tous.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emntalités
- menatlités
- menntalités
- mentailtés
- mentalites
- mentalitsé
- mentalittés
- mentalitéss
- mentaliéts
- mentallités
- mentaltiés
- mentlaités
- menttalités
- metnalités
- mmentalités
- mnetalités
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mentalités - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).