publicité

/\py.bli.si.te\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,951

in French word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

publicité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Notoriété publique. Pronounced \py.bli.si.te\. It ranks #2,951 in French word frequency. Often confused with publicités and publiait.

Key facts for publicité
PropertyValue
Headwordpublicité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\py.bli.si.te\
Letters9
Frequency rank#2,951
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of publicité in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for publicité is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \py.bli.si.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,951 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for publicité, with forms such as "pbulicité", "ppublicité", and "pubblicité". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "publicités", "publiait", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is publicité, spelled P-U-B-L-I-C-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Notoriété publique.
  2. 2
    Action de rendre public, résultat de cette action.
  3. 3
    Action de rendre public, résultat de cette action.
  4. 4
    Action, fait de promouvoir la vente d'un produit en exerçant sur le public une influence, une action psychologique afin de créer en lui des besoins, des désirs ; ensemble des moyens employés pour promouvoir un produit.
  5. 5
    Annonce de caractère commercial par les journaux, les affiches, les prospectus et tous autres moyens de réclame.
  6. 6
    Secteur, domaine des pratiques publicitaires.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: pbulicité,ppublicité,pubblicité,pubilcité,publciité,publiccité,publicite,publicitté,publiciét,publictié,publiicté,publlicité,pulbicité,upblicité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for publicité

Misspelling Variants of "publicité"

pbulicité9ppublicité10pubblicité10pubilcité9publciité9publiccité10publicite9publicitté10
Misspelling Variants of "publicité"

Frequency rank: #2,951 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "publicité"?
"publicité" is spelled P-U-B-L-I-C-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \py.bli.si.te\.
What does "publicité" mean?
As a noun, "publicité" means: Notoriété publique.
What words are commonly confused with "publicité"?
"publicité" is commonly confused with "publicités", "publiait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "publicité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "publicité" is \py.bli.si.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "publicité" come from?
"publicité" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.