sensibilité

/\sɑ̃.si.bi.li.te\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,702

in French word usage

Misspellings

17

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

sensibilité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Qualité par laquelle un sujet est sensible aux impressions physiques. Pronounced \sɑ̃.si.bi.li.te\. It ranks #5,702 in French word frequency. Often confused with sensibilités and sensibilisé.

Key facts for sensibilité
PropertyValue
Headwordsensibilité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɑ̃.si.bi.li.te\
Letters11
Frequency rank#5,702
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sensibilité is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɑ̃.si.bi.li.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,702 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for sensibilité, with forms such as "esnsibilité", "senisbilité", and "sennsibilité". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "sensibilités", "sensibilisé", "sensibiliser", and more, 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 sensibilité, spelled S-E-N-S-I-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
    Qualité par laquelle un sujet est sensible aux impressions physiques.
  2. 2
    De même en parlant des impressions morales.
  3. 3
    Ce à quoi l'on est sensible.
  4. 4
    Sentiment d’humanité, de pitié, de tendresse.
  5. 5
    Ensemble des opérations qui constituent la vie sensitive et la vie affective.
  6. 6
    Propriété de marquer les plus légères différences, les moindres variations.
  7. 7
    Capacité d’un test à donner un résultat positif lorsqu’une hypothèse est vérifiée.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: esnsibilité,senisbilité,sennsibilité,sensbiilité,sensibbilité,sensibiilté,sensibilite,sensibilitté,sensibiliét,sensibillité,sensibiltié,sensibliité,sensiiblité,senssibilité,sesnibilité,snesibilité,ssensibilité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sensibilité

Misspelling Variants of "sensibilité"

esnsibilité11senisbilité11sennsibilité12sensbiilité11sensibbilité12sensibiilté11sensibilite11sensibilitté12
Misspelling Variants of "sensibilité"

Frequency rank: #5,702 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sensibilité"?
"sensibilité" is spelled S-E-N-S-I-B-I-L-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \sɑ̃.si.bi.li.te\.
What does "sensibilité" mean?
As a noun, "sensibilité" means: Qualité par laquelle un sujet est sensible aux impressions physiques.
What words are commonly confused with "sensibilité"?
"sensibilité" is commonly confused with "sensibilités", "sensibilisé", "sensibiliser". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sensibilité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sensibilité" is \sɑ̃.si.bi.li.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sensibilité" come from?
"sensibilité" 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.