nocivité
\nɔ.si.vi.te\
The verdict
“nocivité” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,913. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,913
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de ce qui est nocif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nocivite · nocivité · French
nocivité · rank #46,913 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,913
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Nolwenn
Nearest frequency peer: Nolwenn (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “nocivité”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- navigant
navigant
53,091 corpus weight
- nenni
nenni
53,090 corpus weight
- nocivité
nocivité
53,088 corpus weight
- Nolwenn
Nolwenn
53,087 corpus weight
- nome
nome
53,086 corpus weight
- Novgorod
Novgorod
53,085 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “nocivité” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | nocivité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɔ.si.vi.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #46,913 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “nocivité” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around nocivité (IPA \nɔ.si.vi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,913 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Caractère de ce qui est nocif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for nocivité, with forms such as "ncoivité", "nnocivité", and "noccivité". 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, "nocive", "Nativité", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is nocivité, spelled N-O-C-I-V-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Caractère de ce qui est nocif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nocivité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour caractériser la nocivité de la secousse à la surface du sol, on disposait depuis 1902, de l’échelle macrosismique des intensités de Mercalli, issues d'échelles de plus en plus détaillées, successivement proposées et améliorées par Rossi puis Forel et quelques autres ; […].
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ncoivité
- nnocivité
- noccivité
- nociivté
- nocivite
- nocivitté
- nociviét
- nocivtié
- nocivvité
- nocviité
- noicvité
- oncivité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nocivité - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "nocivité", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "nocivité" maps to 2 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "nocive". View pair
- 12 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #46,913 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "N" letter cohort. N–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.