sexualité

\sɛk.sɥa.li.te\

/\sɛk.sɥa.li.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“sexualité” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,998. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,998
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - L’ensemble de ce qui est relatif au sexe.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sexualite · sexualité · French

sexualité · rank #6,998 · 13 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,998
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sauvetage

Nearest frequency peer: sauvetage (-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 « sexualité »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « sexualité » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

sexualité vs sensualité
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for sexualité
PropertyValue
Headwordsexualité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɛk.sɥa.li.te\
Letters9
Frequency rank#6,998
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sexualité »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.sexualitése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sauvetage » (#6,997), « siens » (#6,999), « saine » (#6,996). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sexualité » est au #6,998. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around sexualité (IPA \sɛk.sɥa.li.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,998 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for sexualité, with forms such as "esxualité", "seuxalité", and "sexaulité". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "sensualité", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sexualité, spelled S-E-X-U-A-L-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    L’ensemble de ce qui est relatif au sexe.
  2. 2
    Orientation sexuelle ou comportement sexuel.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how sexualité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Cycle et sexualité chez les Mousses.
  2. D’une manière générale, la densification des sentiments familiaux et l’assujettissement indolore de la sexualité qui caractérisent la conjugalité et l’intimité bourgeoises, en se diffusant dans l’ensemble du corps social, aboutissaient à faire de l’érotisme une spécialité.

This word in other languages

sexuality(English)sexualidad(Español)Sexualität(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • esxualité
  • seuxalité
  • sexaulité
  • sexuailté
  • sexualite
  • sexualitté
  • sexualiét
  • sexuallité
  • sexualtié
  • sexulaité
  • sexxualité
  • ssexualité
  • sxeualité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sexualité - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

esxualité2seuxalité2sexaulité2sexuailté2sexualite1sexualitté1sexualiét2sexuallité1
Edit distance from "sexualité"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sexualité"?
"sexualité" is spelled S-E-X-U-A-L-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \sɛk.sɥa.li.te\.
What does "sexualité" mean?
As a noun, "sexualité" means: L’ensemble de ce qui est relatif au sexe.
What words are commonly confused with "sexualité"?
"sexualité" is commonly confused with "sensualité". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sexualité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sexualité" is \sɛk.sɥa.li.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sexualité" come from?
"sexualité" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sexualité", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

sauvetage#6,997rapporter#6,991périmètre#6,990sérieuses#7,006

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

vêtement13 variantsmentionner13 variantsarbitrage13 variantsconcession13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list