nullité
\ny.li.te\
The verdict
“nullité” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,009. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,009
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de ce qui est nul ou sans valeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nullite · nullité · French
nullité · rank #18,009 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,009
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nounou
Nearest frequency peer: nounou (-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 « nullité »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- native
native
81,995 corpus weight
- navigateurs
navigateurs
81,994 corpus weight
- nounou
nounou
81,993 corpus weight
- nullité
nullité
81,992 corpus weight
- number
number
81,991 corpus weight
- onzième
onzième
81,989 corpus weight
What this shows « nullité » 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 | nullité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ny.li.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,009 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nullité »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around nullité (IPA \ny.li.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,009 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for nullité, with forms such as "nlulité", "nnullité", and "nulilté". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "nulle", "nudité", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is nullité, spelled N-U-L-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Caractère de ce qui est nul ou sans valeur.
- 2Celui qui est sans aucun mérite, sans aucun talent.
- 3Nature ou qualité intrinsèque d'une personne nulle ou dépourvue d'une quelconque valeur personnelle.
- 4Vice, défaut qui rend un acte nul, de nul effet, sans valeur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nullité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle trembla d'avoir à reconnaître en Julie un cœur désenchanté, une jeune femme à qui l'expérience d'un jour, d'une nuit peut-être, avait suffi pour apprécier la nullité de Victor.
Il n’avait pas l’air rébarbatif de ces graves personnages qui ne rient jamais, par principe, et dont la nullité se couvre d’un masque sérieux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nlulité
- nnullité
- nulilté
- nulité
- nullite
- nullitté
- nulliét
- nulltié
- unllité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nullité - 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.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "nullité", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).