motricité

\mɔ.tʁi.si.te\

/\mɔ.tʁi.si.te\/ noun

The verdict

“motricité” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,925. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#38,925
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faculté motrice commandée par le cerveau et permettant la contraction musculaire et le mouvement.

Corpus desk

Index FR-motricite · motricité · French

motricité · rank #38,925 · 14 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #38,925
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH momies

Nearest frequency peer: momies (-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 « motricité »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « motricité » 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).

motricité vs motrice
67% similar

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

Key facts for motricité
PropertyValue
Headwordmotricité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mɔ.tʁi.si.te\
Letters9
Frequency rank#38,925
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « motricité »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).motricitése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « momies » (#38,924), « mouillées » (#38,926), « mole » (#38,923). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « motricité » est au #38,925. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around motricité (IPA \mɔ.tʁi.si.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,925 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Faculté motrice commandée par le cerveau et permettant la contraction musculaire et le mouvement.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for motricité, with forms such as "mmotricité", "morticité", and "motircité". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "motrice", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is motricité, spelled M-O-T-R-I-C-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Faculté motrice commandée par le cerveau et permettant la contraction musculaire et le mouvement.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. On parle de motricité réflexe quand le geste est indépendant de la volonté.
  2. Elle s’applique sans modification pour l’analyse de la motricité spontanée jusqu’à deux mois après la naissance.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • mmotricité
  • morticité
  • motircité
  • motrciité
  • motriccité
  • motricite
  • motricitté
  • motriciét
  • motrictié
  • motriicté
  • motrricité
  • mottricité
  • mtoricité
  • omtricité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

mmotricité1morticité2motircité2motrciité2motriccité1motricite1motricitté1motriciét2
Edit distance from "motricité"

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 "motricité"?
"motricité" is spelled M-O-T-R-I-C-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \mɔ.tʁi.si.te\.
What does "motricité" mean?
As a noun, "motricité" means: Faculté motrice commandée par le cerveau et permettant la contraction musculaire et le mouvement.
What words are commonly confused with "motricité"?
"motricité" is commonly confused with "motrice". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "motricité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "motricité" is \mɔ.tʁi.si.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "motricité" come from?
"motricité" 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 "motricité", 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).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list