primauté
\pʁi.mo.te\
The verdict
“primauté” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,726. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,726
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prééminence ; premier rang.
Corpus desk
Index FR-primaute · primauté · French
primauté · rank #24,726 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,726
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH PPP
Nearest frequency peer: PPP (-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 « primauté »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- polygamie
polygamie
75,278 corpus weight
- pourtour
pourtour
75,277 corpus weight
- PPP
PPP
75,276 corpus weight
- primauté
primauté
75,275 corpus weight
- productives
productives
75,274 corpus weight
- protégez
protégez
75,273 corpus weight
What this shows « primauté » 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 | primauté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁi.mo.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #24,726 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « primauté »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around primauté (IPA \pʁi.mo.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,726 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for primauté, with forms such as "pirmauté", "pprimauté", and "priamuté". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "private", "Primat", "primaire", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 primauté, spelled P-R-I-M-A-U-T-É.
Definition
- 1Prééminence ; premier rang.
- 2Le fait pour une personne ou une organisation d'occuper le premier rang dans son domaine d'activité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how primauté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si Gobineau a été l'objet du dégoût, de la crainte, de l’ostracisme de nos « rationalistes », c'est qu'il s'est élevé à la fois contre leurs faux raisonnements et contre leur absurde principe de la primauté de la raison : […].
Issues des engagements internationaux de la France et régulièrement introduites dans notre droit, [les normes internationales] s’imposent à toutes les normes de droit interne excepté celles qui ont valeur constitutionnelle. Cette primauté englobe le droit dérivé, créé par les organisations internationales instituées par les traités.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pirmauté
- pprimauté
- priamuté
- primatué
- primaute
- primautté
- primauét
- primmauté
- primuaté
- prmiauté
- prrimauté
- rpimauté
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of primauté - 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
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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 (12 here; floor ≥5).