rivalité
\ʁi.va.li.te\
The verdict
“rivalité” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,477. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,477
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Concurrence de deux ou de plusieurs personnes qui aspirent, qui prétendent à la même chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rivalite · rivalité · French
rivalité · rank #11,477 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,477
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rigoureux
Nearest frequency peer: rigoureux (-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 « rivalité »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- restriction
restriction
88,527 corpus weight
- retirée
retirée
88,526 corpus weight
- rigoureux
rigoureux
88,525 corpus weight
- rivalité
rivalité
88,524 corpus weight
- roulé
roulé
88,523 corpus weight
- routiers
routiers
88,522 corpus weight
What this shows « rivalité » 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 | rivalité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.va.li.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,477 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rivalité »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around rivalité (IPA \ʁi.va.li.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,477 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Concurrence de deux ou de plusieurs personnes qui aspirent, qui prétendent à la même chose.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for rivalité, with forms such as "irvalité", "riavlité", and "rivailté". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "ruralité", "rivalités", "rivale", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is rivalité, spelled R-I-V-A-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Concurrence de deux ou de plusieurs personnes qui aspirent, qui prétendent à la même chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rivalité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une rivalité politique envenimée par les dissentiments religieux préparait depuis longtemps la guerre entre le roi d’Espagne et la reine d’Angleterre.
Rivalité dangereuse, funeste. — La rivalité de deux amants. — La rivalité des chefs entraîna la perte de l’armée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- irvalité
- riavlité
- rivailté
- rivalite
- rivalitté
- rivaliét
- rivallité
- rivaltié
- rivlaité
- rivvalité
- rrivalité
- rvialité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rivalité - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "rivalité", 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).