modalité

\mɔ.da.li.te\

/\mɔ.da.li.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“modalité” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,863. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#29,863
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité, manière d’être.

Corpus desk

Index FR-modalite · modalité · French

modalité · rank #29,863 · 12 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #29,863
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH MK

Nearest frequency peer: MK (-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 « modalité »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « modalité » 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).

modalité vs moralité
88% similar
modalité vs modalités
89% similar
modalité vs mortalité
78% similar

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

Key facts for modalité
PropertyValue
Headwordmodalité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mɔ.da.li.te\
Letters8
Frequency rank#29,863
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « modalité »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).modalitése 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 « MK » (#29,862), « modeler » (#29,864), « meule » (#29,861). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « modalité » est au #29,863. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around modalité (IPA \mɔ.da.li.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,863 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 modalité, with forms such as "mdoalité", "mmodalité", and "moadlité". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "moralité", "modalités", "mortalité", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is modalité, spelled M-O-D-A-L-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qualité, manière d’être.
  2. 2
    Les conditions, les modes d’exécution.
  3. 3
    Caractère d’une phrase musicale, suivant le mode auquel elle appartient.
  4. 4
    Fait énoncé par une proposition en le présentant comme nécessaire, possible ou vrai de fait.
  5. 5
    Mode de perception.
  6. 6
    Se dit d’une technique d’imagerie médicale.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La glace, la vapeur sont des modalités de l’eau.
  2. Les projets de « chèque vert » restent vagues. Et ses modalités abstruses. Pour l'heure, et c'est dommage, la taxe carbone reste une usine à gaz.

This word in other languages

modality(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • mdoalité
  • mmodalité
  • moadlité
  • modailté
  • modalite
  • modalitté
  • modaliét
  • modallité
  • modaltié
  • moddalité
  • modlaité
  • omdalité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of modalité - 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.

mdoalité2mmodalité1moadlité2modailté2modalite1modalitté1modaliét2modallité1
Edit distance from "modalité"

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 "modalité"?
"modalité" is spelled M-O-D-A-L-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \mɔ.da.li.te\.
What does "modalité" mean?
As a noun, "modalité" means: Qualité, manière d’être.
What words are commonly confused with "modalité"?
"modalité" is commonly confused with "moralité", "modalités", "mortalité". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "modalité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "modalité" is \mɔ.da.li.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "modalité" come from?
"modalité" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

modérées#29,865mettrons#29,860monopoly#29,867montrons#29,869

Similar misspelling depth

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

motivées12 variantsobligeait12 variantskidnapper12 variantsoscillant12 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list