mitigé
\mi.ti.ʒe\
The verdict
“mitigé” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,071. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,071
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Atténué, adouci.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mitige · mitigé · French
mitigé · rank #19,071 · 9 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,071
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maternelles
Nearest frequency peer: maternelles (-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 « mitigé »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- marquants
marquants
80,933 corpus weight
- massacrés
massacrés
80,932 corpus weight
- maternelles
maternelles
80,931 corpus weight
- mitigé
mitigé
80,930 corpus weight
- MMA
MMA
80,929 corpus weight
- métallurgie
métallurgie
80,928 corpus weight
What this shows « mitigé » 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 | mitigé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mi.ti.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,071 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mitigé »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around mitigé (IPA \mi.ti.ʒe\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,071 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for mitigé, with forms such as "imtigé", "miitgé", and "mitgié". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "moitié", "motive", "mixité", and more, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mitigé, spelled M-I-T-I-G-É.
Definition
- 1Atténué, adouci.
- 2Pas totalement tranché, mélangé.
- 3Plutôt défavorable, pas vraiment concluant.
- 4(En parlant d’une personne) Réservé, dubitatif.
- 5Relâché, peu rigoureux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mitigé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les formes mitigées du juron familier au Québec « calvaire ! » sont « calvince », « calvette », « calvâse », « calvâsse », et « caltâr ». Celles en France de « merde ! » sont « mince » et « mercredi ».
On reconnaît aujourd’hui que le délinquant est un dégénéré. Ainsi, grâce à l’obligeance de monsieur Ossian Colot, il m’a été loisible d’examiner notre assassin, le sujet Lecœur. Je lui ai trouvé des tares physiologiques… La denture, par exemple, est anormale. J’en conclus à une responsabilité mitigée.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imtigé
- miitgé
- mitgié
- mitige
- mitiggé
- mitiég
- mittigé
- mmitigé
- mtiigé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mitigé - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).