spasticité
\spas.ti.si.te\
The verdict
“spasticité” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Augmentation anormale de la tonicité musculaire, entrainant l’étirement rapide d’un muscle qui entraîne trop facilement sa contraction réflexe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-spasticite · spasticité · French
spasticité · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 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 | spasticité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spas.ti.si.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
spasticité is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \spas.ti.si.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Augmentation anormale de la tonicité musculaire, entrainant l’étirement rapide d’un muscle qui entraîne trop facilement sa contraction réflexe.".
No misspelling variants are generated for spasticité in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is spasticité, spelled S-P-A-S-T-I-C-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Augmentation anormale de la tonicité musculaire, entrainant l’étirement rapide d’un muscle qui entraîne trop facilement sa contraction réflexe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how spasticité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La spasticité se manifeste par des contractures musculaires, parfois très douloureuses, avec une raideur et des spasmes au niveau des membres inférieurs. Chez certains patients, c’est très pénible car cela peut gêner la marche ou perturber le sommeil.
Après un accident de la route, je souffre d’hémiparésie (Ndlr : un déficit partiel de la force musculaire, du côté gauche) et de spasticité (une raideur musculaire involontaire, le plus souvent retrouvée au niveau de certains muscles présentant un déficit moteur.)
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.