responsabilité

/\ʁɛs.pɔ̃.sa.bi.li.te\/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,456

in French word usage

Misspellings

22

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

responsabilité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Obligation de répondre de ses actions ou de celles des autres, d’être garant de quelque chose. Pronounced \ʁɛs.pɔ̃.sa.bi.li.te\. It ranks #1,456 in French word frequency. Often confused with responsabilités and responsabiliser.

Key facts for responsabilité
PropertyValue
Headwordresponsabilité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁɛs.pɔ̃.sa.bi.li.te\
Letters14
Frequency rank#1,456
Misspellings tracked22
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for responsabilité is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɛs.pɔ̃.sa.bi.li.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,456 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Obligation de répondre de ses actions ou de celles des autres, d’être garant de quelque chose.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 22 likely wrong-spelling variants for responsabilité, with forms such as "ersponsabilité", "repsonsabilité", and "resopnsabilité". 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, "responsabilités", "responsabiliser", 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 responsabilité, spelled R-E-S-P-O-N-S-A-B-I-L-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
    Obligation de répondre de ses actions ou de celles des autres, d’être garant de quelque chose.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ersponsabilité,repsonsabilité,resopnsabilité,respnosabilité,responasbilité,responnsabilité,responsabbilité,responsabiilté,responsabilite,responsabilitté,responsabiliét,responsabillité,responsabiltié,responsabliité,responsaiblité,responsbailité,responssabilité,resposnabilité,respponsabilité,ressponsabilité,rresponsabilité,rseponsabilité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for responsabilité

Misspelling Variants of "responsabilité"

ersponsabilité14repsonsabilité14resopnsabilité14respnosabilité14responasbilité14responnsabilité15responsabbilité15responsabiilté14
Misspelling Variants of "responsabilité"

Frequency rank: #1,456 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "responsabilité"?
"responsabilité" is spelled R-E-S-P-O-N-S-A-B-I-L-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɛs.pɔ̃.sa.bi.li.te\.
What does "responsabilité" mean?
As a noun, "responsabilité" means: Obligation de répondre de ses actions ou de celles des autres, d’être garant de quelque chose.
What words are commonly confused with "responsabilité"?
"responsabilité" is commonly confused with "responsabilités", "responsabiliser". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "responsabilité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "responsabilité" is \ʁɛs.pɔ̃.sa.bi.li.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "responsabilité" come from?
"responsabilité" 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. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.