terroriste
\tɛ.ʁɔ.ʁist\
The verdict
“terroriste” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,879. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,879
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la Terreur et à ses partisans et activistes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-terroriste · terroriste · French
terroriste · rank #3,879 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,879
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH subir
Nearest frequency peer: subir (-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 « terroriste »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- stars
stars
96,125 corpus weight
- Steve
Steve
96,124 corpus weight
- subir
subir
96,123 corpus weight
- terroriste
terroriste
96,122 corpus weight
- tester
tester
96,121 corpus weight
- transmission
transmission
96,120 corpus weight
What this shows « terroriste » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | terroriste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tɛ.ʁɔ.ʁist\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #3,879 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « terroriste »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around terroriste (IPA \tɛ.ʁɔ.ʁist\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,879 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for terroriste, with forms such as "etrroriste", "teroriste", and "terorriste". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "terroristes", "terrorise", "terrorisme", and more, 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is terroriste, spelled T-E-R-R-O-R-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la Terreur et à ses partisans et activistes.
- 2Relatif à un régime de terreur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how terroriste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les blanquistes, qui se regardent comme les légitimes propriétaires de la tradition terroriste, estiment qu'ils sont, par cela même, appelés à diriger le mouvement prolétarien.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etrroriste
- teroriste
- terorriste
- terroirste
- terroriset
- terrorisste
- terroristte
- terroritse
- terrorriste
- terrorsite
- terrroiste
- treroriste
- tterroriste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of terroriste - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "terroriste", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).