papauté
\pa.po.te\
The verdict
“papauté” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,903. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,903
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dignité de pape.
Corpus desk
Index FR-papaute · papauté · French
papauté · rank #29,903 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,903
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pansements
Nearest frequency peer: pansements (-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 « papauté »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Paige
Paige
70,101 corpus weight
- paisibles
paisibles
70,100 corpus weight
- pansements
pansements
70,099 corpus weight
- papauté
papauté
70,098 corpus weight
- participaie…
participaient
70,097 corpus weight
- percuter
percuter
70,096 corpus weight
What this shows « papauté » 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 | papauté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.po.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,903 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « papauté »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around papauté (IPA \pa.po.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,903 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for papauté, with forms such as "appauté", "paaputé", and "papatué". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "patate", "payante", "Papeete", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is papauté, spelled P-A-P-A-U-T-É.
Definition
- 1Dignité de pape.
- 2Pouvoir central de l’Église catholique romaine.
- 3Suite historique des Papes.
- 4Temps pendant lequel un pape a occupé le Saint-Siège.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how papauté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au cours d’un Xᵉ siècle troublé, évêques et abbés, […], prétendent mettre l’Église et ses biens hors (et au-dessus) du monde des laïcs, […] ; la papauté parvient elle-même au XIᵉ siècle à s’extraire du contrôle impérial.
Le commencement de cette époque [le moyen âge] est marqué en Europe par une crise sociale, de laquelle sortent tout à la fois les communes, l’organisation complète de la féodalité et de la papauté, les idiomes modernes de l’Europe, l’architecture appelée gothique.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- appauté
- paaputé
- papatué
- papaute
- papautté
- papauét
- pappauté
- papuaté
- ppaauté
- ppapauté
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of papauté - 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).