rapidité
\ʁa.pi.di.te\
The verdict
“rapidité” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,065. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,065
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Célérité, grande vitesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rapidite · rapidité · French
rapidité · rank #9,065 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,065
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ramasser
Nearest frequency peer: ramasser (-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 « rapidité »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- problématiq…
problématiques
90,940 corpus weight
- proportions
proportions
90,939 corpus weight
- publicités
publicités
90,938 corpus weight
- ramasser
ramasser
90,937 corpus weight
- rapidité
rapidité
90,936 corpus weight
- redonner
redonner
90,935 corpus weight
What this shows « rapidité » 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 | rapidité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.pi.di.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rapidité »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around rapidité (IPA \ʁa.pi.di.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,065 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for rapidité, with forms such as "arpidité", "raipdité", and "rapdiité". 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, "rigidité", "rapide", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rapidité, spelled R-A-P-I-D-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Célérité, grande vitesse.
- 2Il s’emploie aussi figurément.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rapidité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A de grandes altitudes planaient les frégates et les phaétons, qui tombaient souvent avec une rapidité vertigineuse pour arracher en l'air leur proie aux oiseaux de mer plongeurs.
Jamais la droite ne se mouvait sans que l’œil droit examinât les circonstances extérieures avec cette rapidité placide particulière au voleur et à l’espion.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arpidité
- raipdité
- rapdiité
- rapiddité
- rapidite
- rapiditté
- rapidiét
- rapidtié
- rapiidté
- rappidité
- rpaidité
- rrapidité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rapidité - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rapidité", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).