nationalité

Name: nationalité, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\na.sjɔ.na.li.te\

/\na.sjɔ.na.li.te\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“nationalité” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,087. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,087
frequency rank, French: 1,563
“N” headwords: 16
tracked misspellings: 5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État d’une personne qui est membre d’une nation particulière.

Corpus desk

Index FR-nationalite · nationalité · French

nationalité · rank #4,087 · 16 variants · 5 confusables

FREQ-COMMON #4,087
LEN-MEGA 11 letters
VOW-6 6 vowels
CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
VAR-HIGH 16 variants
BOOK-MID 1,563
PHOTO-FINISH motifs

Nearest frequency peer: motifs (-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.

mineurs

95,917
minuit

95,916
motifs

95,915
nationalité

95,914
nourrir

95,913
prendra

95,911

What this shows « nationalité » 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).

nationalité vs nationalités

92% similar

nationalité vs nationale

73% similar

nationalité vs nationaliste

83% similar

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

Key facts for nationalité
Property	Value
Headword	nationalité
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\na.sjɔ.na.li.te\
Letters	11
Frequency rank	#4,087
Misspellings tracked	16
Confusable pairs	5
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nationalité »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).nationalitése place ici:

#4,087

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « motifs » (#4,086), « nourrir » (#4,088), « minuit » (#4,085). Parmi 1,563 lemmes en « N », « nationalité » est au #4,087. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around nationalité (IPA \na.sjɔ.na.li.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,087 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for nationalité, with forms such as "antionalité", "naitonalité", and "natinoalité". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "nationalités", "nationale", "nationaliste", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is nationalité, spelled N-A-T-I-O-N-A-L-I-T-É.

Definition

1
État d’une personne qui est membre d’une nation particulière.
2
Caractéristique d’un groupe de personnes unies par une communauté de langue, de culture ou de religion et existant en tant que nation.
3
Groupe humain qui existe ou qui cherche à exister comme nation ; peuple d’une nation.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

Ne sont éligibles que les personnes de nationalité allemande et qui sont majeures.
Au moment de mettre ce livre sous presse, je viens d’apprendre qu’effectivement, la Junte m’a « déchu » de la nationalité chilienne.

Synonyms

naturalité

This word in other languages

nationality(English)nacionalidad(Español)Staatsangehörigkeit(Deutsch)nacionalidade(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

antionalité
naitonalité
natinoalité
natioanlité
nationailté
nationalite
nationalitté
nationaliét
nationallité
nationaltié
nationlaité
nationnalité
natoinalité
nattionalité
nnationalité
ntaionalité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

Edit distance from "nationalité"

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 "nationalité"?

"nationalité" is spelled N-A-T-I-O-N-A-L-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \na.sjɔ.na.li.te\.

What does "nationalité" mean?

As a noun, "nationalité" means: État d’une personne qui est membre d’une nation particulière.

What words are commonly confused with "nationalité"?

"nationalité" is commonly confused with "nationalités", "nationale", "nationaliste". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "nationalité"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "nationalité" is \na.sjɔ.na.li.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "nationalité" come from?

"nationalité" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

visiblement#4,109 conférences#4,059 emplacement#4,146 francophone#4,153

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

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