néophyte
\ne.ɔ.fit\
The verdict
“néophyte” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,218. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,218
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nouvellement converti au christianisme et récemment baptisé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-neophyte · néophyte · French
néophyte · rank #34,218 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #34,218
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH numériquement
Nearest frequency peer: numériquement (-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 « néophyte »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- nommément
nommément
65,786 corpus weight
- Noëlle
Noëlle
65,785 corpus weight
- numériqueme…
numériquement
65,784 corpus weight
- néophyte
néophyte
65,783 corpus weight
- observable
observable
65,782 corpus weight
- officines
officines
65,780 corpus weight
What this shows « néophyte » 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 | néophyte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ne.ɔ.fit\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #34,218 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « néophyte »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around néophyte (IPA \ne.ɔ.fit\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #34,218 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nouvellement converti au christianisme et récemment baptisé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for néophyte, with forms such as "neophyte", "nnéophyte", and "noéphyte". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "néophytes", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 néophyte, spelled N-É-O-P-H-Y-T-E.
Definition
- 1Nouvellement converti au christianisme et récemment baptisé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how néophyte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est, d’autre part, l’enthousiasme de Polyeucte, le chrétien néophyte, qui a reçu le baptême au matin de ce jour, et qui, dans le cours même du sacrifice, à la face du peuple scandalisé, renverse et brise la statue de Jupiter.
Puis il interrogea l’enfant néophyte : — Thaïs, crois-tu en Dieu, le père tout-puissant ?
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- neophyte
- nnéophyte
- noéphyte
- néohpyte
- néophhyte
- néophtye
- néophyet
- néophytte
- néophyyte
- néopphyte
- néopyhte
- népohyte
- énophyte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of néophyte - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).