modestie
\mɔ.dɛs.ti\
The verdict
“modestie” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,535. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,535
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Retenue dans la manière de penser et de parler de soi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-modestie · modestie · French
modestie · rank #18,535 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,535
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH moderniser
Nearest frequency peer: moderniser (-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 « modestie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ministériel…
ministérielle
81,469 corpus weight
- mirror
mirror
81,468 corpus weight
- moderniser
moderniser
81,467 corpus weight
- modestie
modestie
81,466 corpus weight
- mondialement
mondialement
81,465 corpus weight
- Monster
Monster
81,464 corpus weight
What this shows « modestie » 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 | modestie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.dɛs.ti\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,535 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « modestie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around modestie (IPA \mɔ.dɛs.ti\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,535 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for modestie, with forms such as "mdoestie", "mmodestie", and "moddestie". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "modeste", "modestes", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is modestie, spelled M-O-D-E-S-T-I-E.
Definition
- 1Retenue dans la manière de penser et de parler de soi.
- 2Pudeur, décence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how modestie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce doute intime, que nous traduisons par le mot modestie, anime donc et les traits et la personne.
Un succès d’amour-propre vous attend. Acceptez-le avec toute la modestie et l’intelligence voulues.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mdoestie
- mmodestie
- moddestie
- modesite
- modesstie
- modestei
- modesttie
- modetsie
- modsetie
- moedstie
- omdestie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of modestie - 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 "modestie", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).