modernité
\mɔ.dɛʁ.ni.te\
The verdict
“modernité” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,875. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,875
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Le fait d’être moderne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-modernite · modernité · French
modernité · rank #9,875 · 14 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,875
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mlle
Nearest frequency peer: Mlle (-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 « modernité »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Manhattan
Manhattan
90,130 corpus weight
- mens
mens
90,129 corpus weight
- Mlle
Mlle
90,127 corpus weight
- modernité
modernité
90,126 corpus weight
- monts
monts
90,125 corpus weight
- méga
méga
90,122 corpus weight
What this shows « modernité » 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 | modernité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.dɛʁ.ni.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « modernité »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around modernité (IPA \mɔ.dɛʁ.ni.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,875 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for modernité, with forms such as "mdoernité", "mmodernité", and "moddernité". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "moderne", "maternité", "modernisé", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is modernité, spelled M-O-D-E-R-N-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Le fait d’être moderne.
- 2Ce qui est désigné comme moderne, nouveau, innovant, progressiste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how modernité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous étions arrêtés à la porte d’une ville, la porte s’ouvre ; on s’enquiert de mon passeport et de mes bagages : nous entrions dans le vaste empire de Sa Majesté wurtembergeoise. […] On ne me fouilla point : je n’avais rien contre les droits des souverains, moi qui reconnaissais ceux d’un jeune monarque quand les souverains eux-mêmes ne les reconnaissaie…
D’un côté, la modernité la plus extrême ; de l’autre, l’amour austère de l’antique.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mdoernité
- mmodernité
- moddernité
- modenrité
- moderinté
- modernite
- modernitté
- moderniét
- modernnité
- moderntié
- moderrnité
- modrenité
- moedrnité
- omdernité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of modernité - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "modernité", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).