sévérité
\se.ve.ʁi.te\
The verdict
“sévérité” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,182. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,182
- frequency rank, French
- 394,209
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Rigidité, rigueur, absence d’indulgence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-severite · sévérité · French
sévérité · rank #21,182 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,182
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 394,209
- PHOTO-FINISH tasses
Nearest frequency peer: tasses (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “sévérité”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- suture
suture
78,822 corpus weight
- Suzuki
Suzuki
78,821 corpus weight
- sévérité
sévérité
78,819 corpus weight
- tasses
tasses
78,818 corpus weight
- Tatiana
Tatiana
78,817 corpus weight
- testostérone
testostérone
78,816 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “sévérité” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | sévérité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.ve.ʁi.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,182 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sévérité” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around sévérité (IPA \se.ve.ʁi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,182 among 394,209 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for sévérité, with forms such as "severite", "ssévérité", and "svéérité". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "sécurité", "sérénité", "Séverine", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sévérité, spelled S-É-V-É-R-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Rigidité, rigueur, absence d’indulgence.
- 2Austérité, grande régularité, absence de relâchement.
- 3Simplicité, dépouillement, absence de vaine recherche d’élégance et d’ornements superflus.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- severite
- ssévérité
- svéérité
- sévréité
- sévvérité
- sévéirté
- sévéritté
- sévériét
- sévérrité
- sévértié
- séévrité
- ésvérité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sévérité - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sévérité", 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).
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.