mutisme
\my.tism\
The verdict
“mutisme” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,794. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,794
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de celui qui est muet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mutisme · mutisme · French
mutisme · rank #33,794 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,794
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mustafa
Nearest frequency peer: Mustafa (-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 « mutisme »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mouvoir
mouvoir
66,210 corpus weight
- muqueuse
muqueuse
66,209 corpus weight
- Mustafa
Mustafa
66,208 corpus weight
- mutisme
mutisme
66,207 corpus weight
- Mx
Mx
66,206 corpus weight
- nacional
nacional
66,204 corpus weight
What this shows « mutisme » 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 | mutisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \my.tism\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,794 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mutisme »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around mutisme (IPA \my.tism\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,794 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for mutisme, with forms such as "mmutisme", "mtuisme", and "muitsme". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "mutilé", "matisse", "métisse", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mutisme, spelled M-U-T-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1État de celui qui est muet.
- 2Fait de ne pas parler, souvent pour exprimer un retrait, un rejet, un entêtement, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mutisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le mutisme est ordinairement une suite de la surdité de naissance.
Je ne parle pas ici du mutisme causé par la destruction des nerfs récurrents ou par une attaque d’apoplexie : il n’est alors qu’un symptôme. Je passerai également sous silence le mutisme causé par les divers empoisonnements, parce que j’aurai à m’en occuper plus tard. Lorsque le mutisme est essentiellement nerveux, il constitue le seul symptôme de l’affec…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmutisme
- mtuisme
- muitsme
- mutimse
- mutisem
- mutismme
- mutissme
- mutsime
- muttisme
- umtisme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mutisme - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).