sordidité
\sɔʁ.di.di.te\
The verdict
“sordidité” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de ce qui est sordide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sordidite · sordidité · French
sordidité · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sordidité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔʁ.di.di.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
sordidité is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɔʁ.di.di.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "État de ce qui est sordide.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sordidité in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is sordidité, spelled S-O-R-D-I-D-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1État de ce qui est sordide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sordidité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avec les sordidités entendues de l’autre côté de la frontière ces jours-ci, il me semble qu’il serait rafraîchissant d’entendre les politiciens aspirant à fonder un pays nous expliquer comment ils comptent l’habiter pleinement, ce pays-là.
Il nous offre son regard sur la sordidité du monde moderne.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.