possibilité
\pɔ.si.bi.li.te\
The verdict
“possibilité” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,419. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,419
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de ce qui est possible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-possibilite · possibilité · French
possibilité · rank #1,419 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #1,419
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perte
Nearest frequency peer: perte (-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 « possibilité »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- nul
nul
98,584 corpus weight
- perte
perte
98,583 corpus weight
- possibilité
possibilité
98,582 corpus weight
- riche
riche
98,581 corpus weight
- régions
régions
98,580 corpus weight
- sainte
sainte
98,579 corpus weight
What this shows « possibilité » 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 | possibilité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.si.bi.li.te\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #1,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « possibilité »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around possibilité (IPA \pɔ.si.bi.li.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,419 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for possibilité, with forms such as "opssibilité", "posibilité", and "posisbilité". 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, "possibilités", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is possibilité, spelled P-O-S-S-I-B-I-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Caractère de ce qui est possible.
- 2Chose possible
- 3Un des cas d’un choix
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how possibilité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son guiderope traîna de nouveau sur le sol et il envisagea la possibilité de tenter un atterrissage.
On étudiera également les possibilités d’épelation du malade pour des mots en rapport avec son niveau scolaire.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opssibilité
- posibilité
- posisbilité
- possbiilité
- possibbilité
- possibiilté
- possibilite
- possibilitté
- possibiliét
- possibillité
- possibiltié
- possibliité
- possiiblité
- ppossibilité
- psosibilité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of possibilité - 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 "possibilité", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).